{"id":95723,"date":"2016-06-20T08:59:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T06:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=95723"},"modified":"2016-06-20T09:02:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T07:02:17","slug":"researchers-construct-tiny-1000-core-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/95723-researchers-construct-tiny-1000-core-processor","title":{"rendered":"Researchers construct tiny 1,000-core processor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucdavis.edu\/news\/worlds-first-1000-processor-chip\" target=\"_blank\">team of researchers<\/a><\/strong> from University of California, Davis, have built a 1000-core processor capable of high-level\u00a0parallel processing.<\/p>\n<p>Boasting <strong>621 million transistors<\/strong> and a maximum computation rate of <strong>1.78 trillion instructions per second<\/strong>, the microchip features\u00a0the first 1,000-core CPU ever built and is the highest clock-rate processor ever designed in a university.<\/p>\n<p>The KiloCore chip was created by IBM, using a relatively old 32nm CMOS manufacturing process.<\/p>\n<p>Each processor core is independently clocked, and the cores operate at an average maximum clock frequency of <strong>1.78GHz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The KiloCore chip uses only <strong>0.7 Watts<\/strong> to compute 115 billion instructions per second, meaning that it can be powered by a single AA battery.<\/p>\n<p>The 1000-core processor built by UC Davis is the most power-efficient multi-core processor ever built and is <strong>100 times more powerful than a modern laptop processor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to AMD Radeon RX 480 South African pricing revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/95669-amd-radeon-rx-480-south-african-pricing-revealed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">AMD Radeon RX 480 South African pricing revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Greatest City-Building games of all time\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/90701-greatest-city-building-games-of-all-time.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Greatest City-Building games of all time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Using cybersecurity to fight evil artificial intelligence\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/95535-using-cybersecurity-to-fight-evil-artificial-intelligence.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Using cybersecurity to fight evil artificial intelligence<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from University of California, Davis, have built a 1000-core processor capable of high-level parallel processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":95725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19577,19581,31,19579,14488,1085,1856,17516,16909],"class_list":["post-95723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-1000-core","tag-32nm","tag-active","tag-efficient","tag-future","tag-hardware-2","tag-ibm","tag-powerful","tag-processor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}