Cores, Cores, And More Cores: Processing Goes Extreme

摘要

Multicore processors have gone mainstream and increasingly are showing up in PCs, servers, and business data centers. Now Rapport, a startup backed by some industry veterans, wants to take multicore to the extreme with a huge mass of processing elements that promise high throughput at low power. Rapport, headed by the former leaders of Think Technologies and backed by semiconductor pioneer Gordon Campbell, came out of stealth mode last week promising to set a new standard with an architecture that combines 256 processing cores in a single chip.