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01.01.1970 //Intel will equip robots 80 with nuclear processors!
Intel, in chief engineer dzhastin's face Rattnera (Justin Rattner), showed at conference International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) the acting copy of that of already been sensational a little earlier than the 80- nuclear processor. The declared productivity of novelty impresses - 1-1,8 teraflop (but not 1 teraflop, as it was noted earlier, during the demonstration of prototype on IDF Fall`06). Until today this, perhaps, the most powerful central processor for fulfilling the operations with the floating point. Approximately 200 such chips it is sufficient in order to repeat the record of the productivity of the most powerful super-computer (although as early as 1996 necessarily it was 4,5 thousand processors Pentium Pro for achievement of productivity into 1 teraflop, however, they we could not brag by this quantity of nuclei). In the course of presentation was shown by 3,16- GHz the version of the 80- nuclear processor, stress nourishment of which was 0,95 v. in this case it it consumed the order 62 W of energy. 1,8 teraflop it is possible to dostich', if we raise the frequency (and stress) of processor - to 5,7 GHz. In this case the truth, energy consumption strongly grow - up to 265 W. Mr. rattner noted that before 80- nuclear processor will be established in the servers (but not in PK, instruction of kh8' by it they are not supported, it is used architecture VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word)), for the researchers of company one must solve still numerous technical difficulties, such as: the methods of interaction of processor with the memory, the assignment of the possibility to programmers to develop ON for this processor taking into account the special features of its architecture and other. But very fact of the development of similar solution - already great achievement. 80 nuclei of processor Intel are seemingly lined in a tiled manner tile, i.e., each nucleus (computational element + of "router") is located in immediate proximity of the nucleus- neighbor. This permits implementation of the rapid exchange of data in the process of the work of processor. Over the area in 275 square millimeters engineers Intel placed 100 mln. transistors (for the comparison, in Core 2 Duo 291 mln. transistors on 143 square millimeters) of the chip, produced on the 65- nm to technologies. For production efficiency, probably, the thinner standards of technical process will be used, otherwise the production of chips with this design will be economically disadvantageous. However, in Intel still there are sufficiently much time in order to find the methods of interaction of its "80- nuclear processor -cislodrobilki" with OZU, to transfer it to the thinner standards and to learn to use entire its power with the aid of appropriate ON, indeed, as it was declared even on IDF and confirmed on ISSCC, Intel it plans to derive on the market this processor for five years and to use it not only in the computers, but also in the robots. P.S. The logotype given above is undertaken from resource Engadget and it will be hardly acknowledged official.