Future mining technology? 1,000-processor chip
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I note this new chip design is ideal for encryption, so I think it might make a good miner (in the future). If it has wide usage like GPUs, it could help keep a distributed solution to mining.
World’s first 1,000-processor chip
A microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors has been designed by a team at the University of California, Davis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The energy-efficient “KiloCore” chip has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors. The KiloCore was presented at the 2016 Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Honolulu on June 16.
“To the best of our knowledge, it is the world’s first 1,000-processor chip and it is the highest clock-rate processor ever designed in a university,” said Bevan Baas, professor of electrical and computer engineering, who led the team that designed the chip architecture. While other multiple-processor chips have been created, none exceed about 300 processors, according to an analysis by Baas’ team. Most were created for research purposes and few are sold commercially. The KiloCore chip was fabricated by IBM using their 32 nm CMOS technology.
http://techxplore.com/news/2016-06-world-processor-chip.html
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@wrapper 1000 cores @ 0.7W while at ~1.78GHz is very cool, though it may be a challenge to supply all of them with enough memory bandwidth.
