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"The chip is the most energy-efficient 'many-core' processor ever reported, Baas said. For example, the 1,000 processors can execute 115 billion instructions per second while dissipating only 0.7 Watts, low enough to be powered by a single AA battery. The KiloCore chip executes instructions more than 100 times more efficiently than a modern laptop processor."

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(Reminds me of this other chip - built by a "giant" of computing - that was designed to be -very- energy efficient, while having a very large number of very simple cores ...

... ran a special FORTH if I am not mistaken ...

I cannot remember where I found a very nice presentation the gent gave about it ... :/ )

http://www.GreenArrayChips.com/ by Chuck Moore, father of Forth.

There were previous iterations as well. I think this was all funded by some patent they licenced to Intel.

The most astonishing part was that he rolled his own VLSI CAD system: https://mschuldt.github.io/www.colorforth.com/vlsi.html

A video of him demonstrating that system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbd7Xu0ibJM

Wow.

So kind :)

Thank you.-

Right on the dot ...

(I found it fascinating, when I first saw it :)

There was two talks of Moore on GA chips. Multi core forth processors were (and still are) so inspiring.

That's it, indeed :)

Yeah, thought it was interesting that the subject chip didn't have a heat sink/fan and one supporting? chip on the board behind it did.

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