The Intel India Development Centre (IIDC) has co-developed the world's first teraflops research chip for building the next generation of high-end computers and servers to deliver supercomputer-like performance. The 80-core chip, which is less than a fingernail in size, has a powerful programmable processor that can undertake trillions of calculations per second - teraflops consuming only 62 watts of power. Intel hopes the next generation of computers and servers in the coming years will be able to make use of the 80-core processor for a variety of applications once thought to be in the realm of science fiction such as 'Star Trek' shows. Though Intel has no immediate plans to bring the chip designed with floating point cores to the market, it intends to demonstrate the product to its partners in the industry for offering insights in new silicon design methodologies, high bandwidth inter-connects and energy management approaches. The 65-nanometre chip is embedded with 100 million transistors and features an innovative tile design in which 80 smaller cores are replicated as tiles. Going forward, Intel plans to use the 45-nanometre silicon wafer for making the teraflops chip with multi-core processors containing billions of transistors.
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