Research Properties
The idea behind making a research chip of this sort is that it allows companies to explore the possibilities of tera-scale computing. Instead of being forced to work in theory, engineers and researchers can instead work with the chip itself experimentally. The chip is a wake-up call to other computer-related industries to advance their products to meet the needs of the new computing power. Through the exploration of the 80 core processor, concepts such as the Larrabee processor, that has both the CPU and GPU on one chip, can be better understood and made more realistic. With the computing power of the teraflops research chip, technologies such as graphics virtualization and visual recognition become much more realistic.
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