Fujitsu developed the world's fastest CPU "Venus", processing speed 2.5 times the fastest model of Intel

Fujitsu today revealed successful development of the world's fastest CPU "Venus".

It is said that Japanese makers develop the world's fastest CPU for the first time in ten years, and they realize processing capability 2.5 times as fast as the fastest model of Intel CPU currently on sale.

* Image of "Venus" added to 17: 23

Details are as below.
Fujitsu has developed the fastest CPU, the first Japanese manufacturer in 10 years: Science: YOMIURI ONLINE (Yomiuri Shimbun)

According to the Yomiuri Shimbun news report, Fujitsu announced that it succeeded in developing the world's fastest CPU (Central Processing Unit) capable of calculating 128 billion times per second.

This CPU is called "Venus" and it has achieved speedup by increasing the number of central circuits to be integrated on a chip of about 2 square centimeters from 4 cores to 8 cores using the miniaturization technology . The calculation speed is said to be 2.5 times the speed of Intel's fastest model, and the power consumption has also been reduced to one-third.

Intel and IBM, the world's largest developers of CPUs, are leading the way, with Japanese manufacturers becoming top of the line since 1999, when Fujitsu became the top in 1999.

"Venus" is supposed to be adopted as next-generation supercomputer of RIKEN aiming for operation at the end of FY 2010. By installing tens of thousands of items, new drug development, earthquake prediction, In addition to being considered to demonstrate its power in the design of rocket engines, if it is applied to personal computers and digital home appliances etc., there is also the possibility of leading to the development of portable simultaneous interpretation devices and automated driving devices of cars That's right.

By the way, regarding this "Venus", according to the following link, the memory controller is a CPU for the petascale computing server mounted on the CPU chip. And the computing performance per socket is said to be 128 GFlops.

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· 17: 23 Addendum
Product image of "Venus" received from Fujitsu is like this