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And this is news, why?
October 24, 2007
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Intel started demonstrating a chip capable of delivering a teraflop of performance last winter. (see http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/Tera-Scale/1449.htm)
Theirs isn't x86 compatible either, which means it wouldn't have mass market appeal, even if Intel offered it as a product (which they don't plan to do).
Sustaining performance in the TF and PF domains takes more than a clever core architecture. Memory capacity and bandwidth, packaging and software all play key roles. The UT charts don't say much about any of these aspects of their design.