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]] features for [[packet]] handling. Manycore processors make better use of silicon real estate and have lower power requirements thatthan monolithic sequential processors.

Current software architectures can scale on current [[Multi-core (computing)|multicore]] architectures to about eight processors but have poor ability to scale beyond that number.

With the introduction of multiple cores per processor '''manycore''' devices are generally considered to be processors with greater than eight cores.