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Fujitsu rolls out Venus, world's fastest processor
Look out, Intel. Fujitsu just unleashed the fastest processor in the world, a startling 2.5 times quicker than Intel's speediest chip. Supercomputer users will love "Venus," the eight core processor that's capable of 128 billion computations per second.
What all those numbers mean? While its 45-nanometer architecture doesn't pack its components together as tightly as Intel's latest 32-nanometer configuration, it accomplishes that world-record blistering speed while sipping one third the power of Intel's flagship chip.
Alas, this monster processor is not for you and me — it's destined for enormously expensive supercomputers doing high-end research, and won't see practical application for "several years." But its power and design gives us a sneak preview into what's possible, and hints at Intel's next move to answer Fujitsu's slam-dunk.
Via CrunchGear
By IceCKryss at 12:43 PM ON 05/14/09
Aww, there wasn't a clock speed given. I'm gonna go ahead and guess it is a 23.7 GHz processor. Unless I'm horribly, horribly underestimating it.
I wanna see this entity run Crysis.
I couldn't find a good description for it. "Monster" and "Beast" is overused and reminds me of sheer power, not something refined. "god" and "deity" seem like I'm overstating its potential. "Entity" seems the only description for this ...thing.
Unless somebody has a better description for it.
By TEC at 4:28 PM ON 05/14/09
Now that doesn't seem fair, to claim a processor is faster then Intel's quickest processor considering this is an eight core processor compared to the Intel Core i7, Intel's flagship processor. I am sure that Intel has an 8 core processor in the works. But they are pretty tight when it comes to secrets of their processors. But what i want to know is the clock speed of each core. I mean for example what good is a 160 core processing chip if your software isn't going to take advantage of the information processing. Besides it seems like when it comes to processors speed is relative. Seems multi-cores are how its going.
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By RG at 6:15 AM ON 05/15/09
The theoretical number of computations per second is not the most accurate way of comparing different processors which might have slightly different architectures.
Most of the circuits inside a CPU are dedicated to decreasing latency problems.
The Fujitsu may be faster but if it does a poor job of hiding latency, then in real world use it might actually be a slow processor.
By Weldonboy8 at 5:38 AM ON 08/08/09
Intel actually has and 80 core processor which does 1 million TFLOPS. so this little 8 core processor isn't anything compared to Intel. AMD will always have faster bus speeds and better overclocking ability in my opinion. But I will gurrente you that Intel will continue to out sell AMD for years to come. If you have anything you would like to discuss send me and email at weldonboy8@yahoo.com
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