Indian brain behind Intel’s tiny chip
Indian engineers at Intel's facility in Bangalore played a key role in the development of a fingernail-sized chip.
By PTI |
BANGALORE: Indian engineers at Intel's facility in Bangalore played a key role in the development of a fingernail-sized chip that gives supercomputer performance while using only 62 watts of electricity.
The Intel India Development Center (IIDC) played a pivotal role in the development of the chip, contributing about 50 per cent of the work, in terms of logic, circuit and physical design, the company said today.
The rest was done at Oregon, where the other research lab is located.
Intel has developed the world's first programmable processor from a single, 80-core chip, not much larger than the size of a fingernail while using only 62 watts of electricity, less than many single-core processors today, the company said.
This is the result of Intel's "Terascale computing" research aimed at delivering Teraflops-- or trillions of calculations per second-- performance for future PCs and servers, said Vasantha Erraguntla, who leads the 20-member research team at the IIDC.
IIDC was set up in 1998 and is Intel's largest non-manufacturing site outside of the US.
The chip features an innovative tile design in which smaller cores are replicated as "tiles" making it easier to design a chip with many cores. This lays a path to manufacture multi-core processors with billions of transistors more efficiently in the future.
The Teraflops chip also features a mesh-like "network-on-a-chip" architecture that allows super-high bandwidth communications between the cores and is capable of moving Terabits of data per second inside the chip, she said, sharing the achievement with reporters here.
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