Source: techradar.com
World's fastest CPU clocked at 128 gigaflops
Fujitsu pokes Intel in the eye by smashing old world record
Reports from Japan say that a new supercomputer processor has taken the crown of world's fastest by not just beating, but obliterating the old record.
Fujitsu's eight-core SPARC64 VIIIfx Venus CPU was clocked at 128 billion computations per second, which destroyed the previous Intel-held record by a factor of 2.5.
Energy efficient
The new processor is both smaller and more energy-efficient than its predecessors thanks to smaller core components.
The 128-gigaflops chip is based on 45nm circuitry, compared to Intel's 90nm processes on the Itanium 2 chips that had held the record.
However, the US firm says it is also moving to 45nm for the next Itanium, so Fujitsu appears to have a fight on its hands in the brewing supercomputer war.
World's fastest CPU clocked at 128 gigaflops
Fujitsu pokes Intel in the eye by smashing old world record
Reports from Japan say that a new supercomputer processor has taken the crown of world's fastest by not just beating, but obliterating the old record.
Fujitsu's eight-core SPARC64 VIIIfx Venus CPU was clocked at 128 billion computations per second, which destroyed the previous Intel-held record by a factor of 2.5.
Energy efficient
The new processor is both smaller and more energy-efficient than its predecessors thanks to smaller core components.
The 128-gigaflops chip is based on 45nm circuitry, compared to Intel's 90nm processes on the Itanium 2 chips that had held the record.
However, the US firm says it is also moving to 45nm for the next Itanium, so Fujitsu appears to have a fight on its hands in the brewing supercomputer war.
