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Friday May 15, 2009
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At the Fujitsu Forum 2009 this week, the eponymous company unveiled a new chip that can perform 128 billion computations per second. That number's roughly 2.5 times faster than Intel's fastest. It makes the Venus (also more technically known as SPARC64 VIIIfx) a contender for the title of world's fastest CPU.
Still in the prototype stages, the Venus measures 2 square centimeters. Fujitsu says the chip has potential applications in such fields as weather prediction and astronomy, but the company hasn't ruled out more mainstream deployment, either.
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May 16, 2009 10:54 PM
Wow! 128 Billion computations per second? That's extremely fast! Do you have link where Fujitsu officially announced this? Thanks!
May 17, 2009 10:34 AM
wow, it's unbelievable fast Fujitsu CPU. Another big news is it's fastest than Intel.
May 18, 2009 7:08 AM
So, 'wassup' with being so fast? What does it REALLY do for us? To paraphrase Monty Roberts, renown horse trainer and clinician, "If you go about something as if you have only 15 minutes - it may take you all day. But if you go about something as if you have all day, it may take you only 15 minutes". Being relatively new to computers I stand at a loss over the obsession for "speed". The world has long forgotten 'slow is best'.