by Craig Boone
The International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing in March 2011 will have an interesting new entry from a Dr. Wim Vanderbauwhede and a group of scientists from the University of Glasgow. Bypassing, nay blowing right past, present market technology, which currently offers multi-core processors of two, four, eight, and even sixteen processors, Glasgow and his team have apparently created a new, 1,000-core processor that they claim runs 20 times faster than the multi-core processors currently used in existing PCs.

Dr. Vanderbauwhede states that he and his team used a chip called a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to create this screamingly fast, smokin’ new processor that holds millions of transistors much like today’s processors. The difference is that the scientists utilized a method that provides dedicated memory to each core, which effectively improves the overall output of each of the cores to make the processor run faster.

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