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International IT firm and network equipment manufacturer IBM is set to launch a new supercomputer processor next year.
The chip is part of the firm's plan to build the world's fastest computing device.
IBM's Blue Waters project will create a computer that can cope with massively complex mathematical computations and will be capable of 10 petaflops – ten times faster than today's most powerful device.
In an interview with Cnet, Bradley McCredie, an IBM Fellow in the Systems and Technology Group, said that the new chip is a combination of the company's Power7 processor and a separate device created for IBM's Roadrunner system, which is housed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Mr McCredie told the news provider: "We took some of that genetic material from the Cell programme - ways to do floating point (calculations) - and embedded that right into the Power7 core."
The announcement comes after Intel announced the introduction of a 48-core data centre on a chip processor.
Last Updated: 07/12/2009 18:00
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