INTEL RESEARCH ADVANCES 'ERA OF TERA'
World’s First Programmable Processor to Deliver Teraflops Performance
with Remarkable Energy Efficiency
[quote]SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 11, 2007 – Intel Corporation researchers have developed the world’s first programmable processor that delivers supercomputer-like performance from a single, 80-core chip not much larger than the size of a fingernail while using less electricity than most of today’s home appliances. This is the result of the company’s innovative “Tera-scale computingâ€