Teraflop isn't just a funny word, it's the future

In addition to being fun to say, a teraflop means calculating one trillion floating point operations per second. That’s what Intel’s new chip code-named ‘The Teraflops Research Chip’ can do, and it promises to revolutionize the way computing, software, everything is done. I don’t actually understand any of the numbers involved, but this is really exciting.

Intel’‘s official release

posted by Alex Herder on 16 February 2007
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