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Plurality's
innovative Hypercore Processor is a breakthrough in multicore design,
architecture, and functionality, and a viable multicore processing
solution that greatly accelerates complex processing and applications.
It is a scalable, easily programmable, general-purpose multicore
processor that addresses the performance required by modern algorithms
and applications, while exploiting their inherent parallelism.
Restricted only by its physical limitations, the Hypercore may comprise
hundreds of cores on a single silicon chip, while it harnesses and
utilizes all of the individual cores, tightly combines their operation,
and converts this tightly coupled machine into one integrated superior
unit of available computing power.
Green
Technology
The HyperCore processor is a RISC machine that is more energy-efficient
and space-saving than normal RISC machines. RISC architecture is
regarded as the most energy- and space-efficient processor
architecture. RISC instructions may take 1-2 cycles and the
instructions can be broken down into separate tasks that can be run on
separate cores. Because the instruction set of a RISC processor is so
simple, the processor takes less area. RISC architecture also requires
less memory referencing because programmers can use on-chip registers
to store data fetched from memory and for arithmetic operations,
instead of always accessing memory. HyperCore processors are connected
to a globally- available shared-memory space, in which all processors
are equidistant to memory, and have equal access to memory on a
first-come, first-served basis. This further reduces chip size and
power consumption.
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