KiloCore project packs 1,000 CPU cores into tiny power envelope, 32nm process

It’s been almost a decade since CPU developers began talking up many-core chips with core counts potentially into the hundreds or even thousands. Now, a recent paper at the 2016 Symposium on VLSI Technology has described a 1,000-core CPU built on IBM’s 32nm PD-SOI process. The “KiloCore” is an impressive beast, capable of executing up to 1.78 trillion instructions per second in just 621 million transistors. The chip was designed by a team at UC Davis.