Fujitsu Develops World’s Fastest CPU
"Fujitsu Ltd. says that the company has sucessfully developed the world’s fastest central processing unit - a CPU capable of performing 128 billion calculations per second. You know Intel and IBM have been leading developers of CPU, and this CPU codenamed Venus will help Fujitsu to take back the title of the world’s fastest CPU maker for the first time since 1999.
Venus calculates 2.5 times faster than the previous record-holding model which was made by Intel. Fujitsu has taken the advantage of miniaturization technology to double the number of central circuits integrated onto a chip measuring about 2cm from four to eight. Venus also shows great energy efficiency - cutting electricity consumption to about one-third of current levels.
The new CPU will be hopefully used on an Institute of Physical and Chemical Science next-generation supercomputer which will go into operation at the end of fiscal 2010. Tens of thousands of the CPUs would be installed in the supercomputer.
The Venus is likely to have implications for technologies such as new drug development, earthquake prediction and rocket engine design. In addition, it’s said that should the Venus come to be used in devices such as personal computers and digital electronic appliances, it could lead to the development of equipment such as portable simultaneous interpretation devices and automated driving devices for cars"
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Fujitsu Discloses Further Details About Venus Chip: Eight-Core Processor that Consumes 35W
Fujitsu, a maker of various electronics and also a developer of microprocessors, this week disclosed some additional details regarding its Venus processor. Unfortunately, the company is still unsure about availability timeframe for the chip as well as systems on its base.
According to Fujitsu, 128GFLOPs peak performance of eight-core SPARC64 VIIIfx (Venus) is 2.5 times higher compared to Intel’s top-of-the-range dual-core Itanium 2, however, even with built-in memory controller Venus consumes only 33% of what Itanium 2 uses, hence, about 35W, according to PC Watch web-site.
It should be noted that Intel Itanium 2 chips only have two processing cores and are made using 90nm process technology, meanwhile, Fujitsu’s SPARC64 VIIIfx (Venus) is made using 45nm low-power process, sports eight processing cores and is not yet available on the market. Intel plans to unveil a new breed of Itanium chips with four cores and produced using 45nm technology. It is highly likely that Fujitsu’s Venus will have to compete against those chips.
At present Fujitsu is only testing the new processors and so far it has made no comments regarding actual availability. The only official clue is that the chips “will find themselves in applications in the course of the following years” can hardly be considered as an update.
Fujitsu’s SPARC64VIIIfx is aimed at supercomputers and enterprise-class servers from Fujitsu. Theoretically, the chip could be found inside Sun’s servers, however, given that Sun Microsystems was recently acquired by Novell, the destiny of SPARC-based servers from Sun is not completely clear.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...sumes_35W.html
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