The super multi-core processor can deliver "supercomputer-like"performance to home computers and handheld devices. "Our researchers have achieved a wonderful and key milestone in terms of being able to drive multi-core and parallel computing performance forward," said Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner at an IT annual meeting in San Francisco.
A similarly powerful supercomputer at the U.S Sandia National Laboratories, built by Intel in 1996, took up more than 180 square meters, used nearly 10,000 Pentium Pro processors, and consumed more than 500 kilowatts of electricity. Intel's new research chip achieves the exact same performance, but on one multi-core chip.
The chip could, in future, let ordinary users access such advanced techniques on their computers as speech recognition, ultra-realistic gaming and artificial intelligence.
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