Fujitsu Venus SPARC64 VIIIfx – the world’s fastest CPU
Fujitsu Professionals was able to create the fastest in the world central processing unit capable to perform 128 billion operations per second. It is assumed that the processor has received the designation Venus SPARC64 VIIIfx, will enable Fujitsu to circumvent its main competitors – Intel and IBM – to regain the title of creator of the most productive CPU, lost in 1999.
It is estimated that Venus SPARC64 VIIIfx is ahead of the fastest processor Intel (Xeon 5500 the kernel Nehalem) approximately 2.5 times. By applying improved production methods, Fujitsu was able to place eight cores on a crystal. At the same time, managed to reduce energy consumption – for this indicator Venus is substantially outweighed by their predecessors.
Tens of thousands of copies of the new processor could become the basis of new supercomputer generation, created in Japan. CPU inclusion in operation is expected in 2010.
