[crunch] Better than Intel: Fujitsu develops world’s fastest processor - Overclock.net

SZayat · 05-14-09

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/14...est-processor/

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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”.

Who else makes processors that I am not aware of

Bartmasta · 05-14-09

[Tempted to say Crysis joke]

Why doesnt Fujitsu make desktop cpu's

sigfreik · 05-14-09

Wait, so Fujitsu has a license for making processors as well?
edit

h it turns out to be the SPARC architecture which is open.

CattleRustler · 05-14-09

are you guys avoiding the homepage, and the site still works, too?

Adrienspawn · 05-14-09

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Originally Posted by CattleRustler

are you guys avoiding the homepage, and the site still works, too?

Everything's been on and off the the past day.

Didn't notice it was only the homepage sometimes though.

On topic: Man, give these guys a license to make desktop processors. Unless it's just not suited for that?

CattleRustler · 05-14-09

sorry for o/t:
yeah the homepage is still down for me, has been all day, but as long as I avoid it the rest of the site seems to be working perfectly - lol wish I knew this hours ago when I was in work

just realized it a little while ago by accident

GoTMaXPoWeR · 05-14-09

Yeah but can it run Crysis?

Ohhhh I didn't.

EDIT - Look! A wafer! Nom nom nom nom.

thehighlander123 · 05-14-09

if only it was socket 775 haha

Higgins · 05-14-09

This is what happens when there are only two companies that make desktop grade CPUS.. they only try and best eachother instead of designing something like this which is generations ahead.