Intel Unveils One Teraflops Chip

Intel has developed an accelerator chip capable of running at speeds of one teraflops, equal to one trillion calculations per second. The firm showed off the chip Knights Corner, on a test machine at a supercomputing conference in Seattle.

Computer power on this scale is used to solve a range of problems in fields such as weather forecasting, molecular modelling and car crash simulations. The chip pits Intel against rival add-on processors from Nvidia and AMD.

The Knights Corner chip acts as a co-processor taking over some of the most complicated tasks from the computer's central processing unit (CPU). It packs more than 50 cores - or individual processors - onto a single piece of silicon.

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