The MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has always been ahead of time. Their research division often shows projects and prototypes that give us a glimpse of what we might expect in the future. Today, they unveiled a new 36 core processor which feature a particular architecture: they created an internal loop to be able to inter-connect all the 36 cores with each other.
At the moment, the CPU technology is pretty stuck, we have 2/4 cores, 8 at best. Many people wonder if there’s a more efficient way to create processors, and somebody over at the MIT decided to give it a try.

The MIT prototype features 36 cores which are directly connected to the closest one. Forget the BUS then, there is nothing on the sort to transfer data in the most efficient and fastest way, like it happens on our CPUs.

After creating this system, they realized it’s barely impossible to track data while it’s moving, and it’s hardest for the cores to find what they are looking for. To solve this problem, they implemented a second circuit over the first one: thanks to this circuit, the cores ask for the data they need, creating some sort of priority program, like a chronolgy, like we have on our CPUs.

It doesn’t need to be said, but this technology is far from being implemented on any kind of PC, but it’s still pretty interesting to see what might be the future. For the most curious, you can check further informations on MIT blog, at the following link.





Source: MIT Blog
via Le Comptoir du Hardware.