1000 first microchip processors in the world created by a team of scientists

A team of US scientists He created the first microchip in the world that has 1,000 processors and is thought to be the fastest chip designed in a university laboratory. This low-power microchip, designed by a team at the University of California, Davis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is named as the "KiloCore" chip and has a maximum count rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and It contains 621 million transistors.

"To the best of our knowledge, is the first 1000 chip processor in the world and is the highest-frequency clock has been designed in a university processor," said Bevan Baas, professor of electrical and computer engineering. Manufactured by IBM using its 32nm CMOS technology, each processor core KiloCore chip can run your own small program independently of the others. The team said other multiple-processor chips that have been created so far never exceeded 300 processors.

"This is a fundamentally more flexible approach to the so-called Single-Instruction-Multiple-Data approaches used by processors such as GPU, the idea is to break an application into many small pieces, each of which can run in parallel on different processors, which enable high performance with lower power consumption, "Baas said. Because each processor has a speed independently, can auto turn off to save even more energy when not needed, Brent Bohnenstiehl graduate student who developed the architecture manager said.

Cores operating at a frequency of maximum average 1.78 GHz clock, and data transfer directly to each other instead of using a memory area grouped that can become a bottleneck for data. The KiloCore was presented at the 2016 Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Honolulu recently.