Intel Unveils Fast Chip

NM Business Journal - Intel on Wednesday unveiled a new chip that can operate at a speed of 1 terfalop -- or one trillion calculations per second. Computerworld reports that the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip-maker -- which debuted the chip at the SC11 Supercomputing Conference in Seattle -- has made a terflop chip before, but this is the first marked for production. The company didn't disclose when the chip, called "Knights Corner," would be commercially available. In 1997, a supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque used nearly 10,000 Intel Pentium processors to reach one trillion calculations per second. It cost the federal government $55 million. Intel is Rio Rancho's largest private employer with about 3,200 workers. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Intel Unveils Fast Chip