The Teraflops Research Chip (also called Polaris) is a research processor containing 80 cores developed by Intel Corporation's Tera-Scale Computing Research Program. The processor was officially announced February 11, 2007 and shown working at the 2007 International Solid-State Circuits Conference. Features of the processor include dual floating point engines, sleeping-core technology, self-correction, fixed-function cores, and three dimensional memory stacking. The purpose of the chip is to explore the possibilities of Tera-Scale architecture (the process of creating processors with more than four cores) and to experiment with various forms of networking and communication within the next generation of processors.
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