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Quad Core Quad Core Processor to bring Tera Ops?

By Derek Sooman

On August 29, 2003, 4:25 AM

Researchers at UT are working with IBM on a new CPU architecture called TRIPS (Tera-op Reliable Intelligently adaptive Processing System).

Central to the new TRIPS architecture is a new concept called 'block-oriented execution"' which will result in a processor capable of executing more than 1 trillion operations per second.

[COLOR=royalblue]A chip capable of performing 1 trillion operations, a tera-op, won't emerge from the project until 2010. However, researchers are readying a prototype chip with four processor cores--the computing units inside a processor--that is expected in less than three years. [/COLOR]

I am sure that you will NEED one of these babies to play Quake 6!

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  1. August 29, 2003 8:56 PM
    ---agissi--- said:
    Gosh!!! Why do things take like 10 years to make!?! Why not 1 or 2...maybe 3 :p but 2010? I dont wanna wait that long!!!!!!! How bout now :D
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  2. August 30, 2003 2:13 PM
    StormBringer said:
    A related article can be found here: [url]http://www.techextreme.com/perl/story/22191.html[/url]
    Reply

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