Edit: Appears to be manufactured at TSMC, which is who makes GPUs for AMD and Nvidia, and SoCs for apple, etc. Not Russian silicon?
Yes, currently manufactured in TSMC as it was in testing by Elbrus as Russian govt was initally skeptical and not willing to invest ,though Russian govt is modifing the fab at zelenograd for Elbrus-4 as Elbrus is proven its claims and they are now getting the necessary money from Rus govt.
@mandrom
I am a fairly experienced computer hardware enthusiast. You are basically using a meaningless metric when comparing the speed of CPUs and are unaware of what a GPU is capable of.
The best part is that is easy to prove all of us wrong. Link to some verifiable benchmarks in an apples-to-apples comparison, and you win the day.
And yet only Titan Supercomputer is the only supercomputer using GPU's and it has had several software issues and bugs ,though many are being sorted out or have been sorted out .There was a case of DNA simulation which revealed problems in Titan and the GPU concept underwent debugging And Tianhe-2 is the leader and uses CPU's not Titan which is second fastest and a Jaguar supercomputer pumped up by GPU/CPU combo.Plus titan is much more expensive compared to Tianhe-2.
Like I said before GPU is a supplement,CPU is still the brain .
And yes,almost every american claims to be expert or from military,US numero uno blah blah . yeah ,yeah ,we know your standard drill .Now go back to cheering America! america! america!
There are several reasons behind the popularity of Intel core over other products, and efficient Floating Point Operation is just one of those many reasons. Intel's instruction set is very rich and has become a standard for the Industry.
Just for the information of the forum members above 95% of all Microprocessors consumed by the industry are 8-bit and 16-bit Harvard Architecture Microcontrollers and not the high end CPUs used in PCs, Mainframes and SCs. Almost all major countries can produce these chips locally. Even India manufactures microprocessors and micro-controllers. Major educational institutions like IITs in India have VLSI labs.
intel is popular because it was a leader in cpu tech. Now,there are alternatives and they are catching up. And NSA and its corporate espionage has unnerved many executives who do suspect that their sensitive data is going to foreign corporates(ones in USA).
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