Manycore processing unit: Difference between revisions

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* many standard [[instruction set]] [[microprocessor]] [[Multi-core (computing)|cores]],

* integrated low-[[Latency (engineering)|latency]] [[memory controller]],

* hardware [[accelerator (computing)|acceleration]] futuresfeatures for [[packet]] handling.

MPUs have emerged since 2000 as a new class of processor used for [[Embedded system|embedded]] applications in [[telecommunications]], [[networking]] and other applications.

Somewhat confusingly, if the processor is used for general-purpose computing,