Bad news for Intel for two days in a row. Fujitsu yesterday took the wraps off a new CPU made for supercomputers that can perform 128 billion computations per second, which is 2.5 times faster than the super processor of the current record holder Intel.
The prototype is fabricated using a 45-nanometer process and consists of a total of eight cores. Fujitsu says the new CPU, dubbed Venus, also consumes just one third of the power the Intel chip uses. The company expects the processor not only to be sold to makers of super computers but also to the industry. One possible area of usage is product development, i.e. in research for new drugs.
Fujitsu is now the first Japanese company in about 10 years to hold the record. Practical application of Venus is expected to take place “within several years”.
Via PC Watch [JP]
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…seriously though
Bad week for Intel indeed. First there is the EU fine then they get attacked on the high end processor front.
on the value front AMD market share has progressed during the last quarter: http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/05/idc-intel-and-atom-down-amd-up-in-first-quarter.ars
As if it wasn’t bad enough that war is brewing with Qualcomm and it’s ARM based offerings on the netbook front: http://www.tech-no-media.com/2009/05/netbook-processor-wars-atom-x86-versus.html
Now Intel is attacked on all fronts…
I need a GPU made out of these…pronto.
Click through to the original Japaneses site and you’ll see that it is a SPARC64 chip….
You wont see one of these in a desktop home PC. Also practical application in a few years, Processors are out of date in a few months. Please. Intel has 0 to worry about. They still build the best desktop processor available.
QUOTE: Please. Intel has 0 to worry about. They still build the best desktop processor available.
That all depends on what you need, and just becaus somthing is great does not mean it’s going to be great forever. in other words. Shit happens.
It is no surprise Japanese behave arrogant like this, remember the hype of Playstation 2 and Playstation 3? Better than Intel, faster than Intel sounds familiar…
Intel may have something in Lab you don’t know, watch out Sandy bridge + AVX
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yeah thats cool and all, but saying 128 billion computations per second doesnt exactly give me an idea of how fast this thing is.