University of California creates a 1000 core CPU

KiloCore is a new thousand core chip, created by Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California. The KiloCore chip can achieve 1.78 trillion instructions per second and has 621 million transistors. Coming to energy efficiency, the KiloCore can execute 115 billion instructions per second and dissipate only 0.7W. That’s more than 100 times faster than chips used in modern laptop.

“To the best of our knowledge, it is the world’s first 1,000-processor chip and it is the highest clock-rate processor ever designed in a university,” said Bevan Baas, professor of electrical and computer engineering, who led the team that designed the chip architecture.

Made using 32nm CMOS tech, KiloCore’s each core and run small program without dependance or co-ordination with other core. This way, an application can be divided into multiple smaller pieces and run parallel on multiple cores. Each core is independently clocked and can be shut down when not needed to save energy. The maximum clock speed would be 1.78GHz.

You can find more detail on this at University of California site : https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/worlds-first-1000-processor-chip