| General information | |
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| Launched | 2006 |
| Designed by | Intel Tera-Scale Computing Research Program |
| Performance | |
| Max. CPU clock rate | 5.67 GHz |
| Data width | 38-bit |
| Architecture and classification | |
| Instruction set | 96-bit VLIW |
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| History | |
| Successor | Xeon Phi |
Intel Teraflops Research Chip (codenamed Polaris) is a research manycore processor containing 80 cores, using a network-on-chip architecture, developed by Intel's Tera-Scale Computing Research Program.[1] It was manufactured using a 65 nm CMOS process with eight layers of copper interconnect and contains 100 million transistors on a 275 mm2 die.[2][3][4] Its design goal was to demonstrate a modular architecture capable of a sustained performance of 1.0 TFLOPS while dissipating less than 100 W.[3] Research from the project was later incorporated into Xeon Phi. The technical lead of the project was Sriram R. Vangal.[4]
The processor was initially presented at the Intel Developer Forum on September 26, 2006[5] and officially announced on February 11, 2007.[6] A working chip was presented at the 2007 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, alongside technical specifications.[2]
- ^ Intel Corporation. "Teraflops Research Chip". Archived from the original on July 22, 2010.
- ^ a b Vangal, Sriram; Howard, Jason; Ruhl, Gregory; Dighe, Saurabh; Wilson, Howard; Tschanz, James; Finan, David; Iyer, Priya; Singh, Arvind; Jacob, Tiju; Jain, Shailendra (2007). "An 80-Tile 1.28TFLOPS Network-on-Chip in 65nm CMOS". 2007 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference. Digest of Technical Papers. pp. 98–589. doi:10.1109/ISSCC.2007.373606. ISBN 978-1-4244-0852-8. S2CID 20065641.
- ^ a b Peh, Li-Shiuan; Keckler, Stephen W.; Vangal, Sriram (2009), Keckler, Stephen W.; Olukotun, Kunle; Hofstee, H. Peter (eds.), "On-Chip Networks for Multicore Systems", Multicore Processors and Systems, Springer US, pp. 35–71, Bibcode:2009mps..book...35P, doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0263-4_2, ISBN 978-1-4419-0262-7, retrieved 2020-05-14
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
:4was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Intel Develops Tera-Scale Research Chips". Intel News Release. 2006.
- ^ Intel Corporation (February 11, 2007). "Intel Research Advances 'Era Of Tera'". Intel Press Room. Archived from the original on April 13, 2009.