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Lees meer'Embarrassingly parallel' protoype baked for DARPA to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon at massive scale Hot Chips Intel has used this week’s Hot Chips conference in California to show off a 528-thread processor with 1TB/s silicon photonics interconn…
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