According to the Daily Mail on December 28, scientists have created an ultra-fast computer chip which is 20 times faster than current desktop computers。
Modern PCs have a processor with two, four or sometimes 16 cores to carry out tasks. But the central processing unit (CPU) developed by the researchers effectively had 1,000 cores on a single chip。
The developments could usher in a new age of high-speed computing in the next few years for home users frustrated with slow-running systems。
Scientists used a chip called a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)，which can be configured into specific circuits by the user. This enabled the team to divide up the transistors within the chip into small groups and ask each to perform a different task. By creating more than 1,000 mini-circuits within the FPGA chip, the scientists effectively turned the chip into a 1,000-core processor - each core working on its own instructions。
The team was led by Dr Wim Vanderbauwhede, of the University of Glasgow, and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Lowell。
据英国《每日邮报》12月28日报道，科学家最近发明了一种快速电脑芯片，用上它可以让目前电脑速度提高20倍。
现代电脑一般用的是双核、四核，甚至16核处理器，来执行指令。但是研究人员成功开发出来的电脑芯片是1000核中央处理器。
这一技术标志着在未来数年里，电脑家庭用户将迎来电脑高速运转时代，将不再因低速运转系统而受挫。
科学家利用一种叫做现场可编程门阵列的芯片，这种芯片可以用来设置特定电路。研究小组把芯片上的晶体管分成很多小组，每个小组执行不同的任务。这样一来，研究人员在现场可编程门阵列芯片上创造出来1000个迷你电路，成功地将电脑芯片变成1000核处理器，每个核心在各自的指令下执行任务。
美国格拉斯哥大学的韦姆•温得斯保韦德博士以及他在马萨诸塞州洛厄尔大学的同事们共同进行了此次研究。