Azul Systems, a chip design company, has successfully developed the new Vega 2 64-bit processor chip, which features an impressive 48 processing cores on a single silicon wafer. This makes it one of the highest core count single chips in the world today.
Azul Systems, which is currently a subsidiary of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), announced that the Vega 2 64-bit chip is manufactured using 90-nanometer chip technology. It houses 48 processing cores on the same board, containing up to 812 million transistors, effectively doubling the core count on a single silicon wafer compared to the previous Vega 1 series with 24 cores.
With the Vega 2 64-bit processor line, Azul Systems can independently create symmetrical multiprocessor supercomputers that can integrate up to 768 of these 48-core chips, equipped with 768 GB of memory. The current supercomputer lineup from Azul is equipped with a chip processing system that includes 384 24-core chips with 256 GB of memory.
Azul Systems has indicated that it will officially release the Vega 2 48-core chip around early 2007.
HOÀNG KIM ANH
