Our PCs have a processor with two, four or 16 cores to carry out tasks, but the central processing unit ( CPU ) developed by the researchers effectively have 1,000 cores on a single chip. That means our system will be 20 times faster than the current speed. This new SUPER computer uses less power and works with high speed w.r.t current computers.
Scientists used a chip called a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), which contains millions of transistors, But FPGAs can be configured into specific circuits by the user, rather than their function being set at a factory. This enabled the team to divide the transistors within the chip into small groups and make them to perform different tasks. By creating more than 1,000 mini-circuits within the FPGA chip , the researchers effectively turned the chip into a 1,000-core processor, each core working on its own instructions.
The chip is able to process around five gigabytes of data per second in testing, making it approximately 20 times faster than modern computers.
