#9 Tera Research Processor

The Teraflops Research Processor with the codename ‘Polaris’ is an 80-core research chip. It is the first programmable processor to exceed 1 trillion floating point operations per second.  

It was developed by Intel Corporations tera-Scale Computing Research Program and was officially announced and shown working at the 2007 International Solid-State Circuits Conference.

Dual floating point engines, sleeping-core technology, self correction, fixed-function cores and three dimensional memory stacking, these are the features of the processor.

Its purpose is to explore the possibilities of Tera-Scale architecture, the process of creating processors with more than four cores. It is also used to experiment with various forms of networking and communication within the next generation of processors.