Scientists at California University have designed the World’s first fastest microchip consisting 1000 independent programmable processors.
World’s first fastest microchip has been designed by the scientists at the University of California which can compute 1.78 trillion instructions per second. The microchip is energy efficient too. It is named as the “KiloCore” chip. As per the Chip architects – Bevan Baas and Davis, this new microchip contains 621 million transistors. this also has the highest clock rate.
Along with these, some other multi-processors have also been created. But, none exceeded 300 processors. A few of them will be sold commercially. World’s first fastest microchip has the speciality of running own small programmes independently which is a flexible approach. The Single instruction and multiple data approach utilised by the processors are like a graphics processing unit (GPU).
The logic behind developing such a microchip is breaking an application into small pieces which in turn run in parallel on different processors. This is possible because the processors are clocked independently. This technology also saves the energy as it can shut down when no task is assigned.
The chip has many core processors which operate at an average maximum clock frequency of 1.78 GHz which can transfer data directly to each other unlike the previous way of pooling the data in the memory.
Approximately, 115 billion instructions per second are executed by the 1000 processors with 0.7 watts which is much lesser than a single AA battery charge. The KiloCore chip executes the instructions more than 100 times when compared to the present day laptop processors.
Wireless coding and decoding, encryption, video processing and other large parallel data like data centre record processing and data applications are already developed for the chip. Compilation and programme mapping tools are completed for programming the chip.