雙語財經新聞 第21期:新型電腦芯片

Scientists have created an ultra-fast computer chip which is 20 times faster than current desktop computers.

科學家最近發明了一種快速電腦芯片，用上它可以讓目前電腦速度提高20。

Modern PCs have a processor with two, four or sometimes 16 cores to carry out tasks. But the central processing unit (CPU) developed by the researchers effectively had 1,000 cores on a single chip.

現代電腦一般用的是雙核、四核，有時也是16核處理器，來執行指令，完成各種

操作。但是研究人員成功開發出來的電腦芯片是1000核中央處理器。

The developments could usher in a new age of high-speed computing in the next few years for home users frustrated with slow’running systems.

這一技術的發展，將引導我們進人一個電腦高速運轉的新時代,這意味着在未 來數年裏,電腦家庭用戶將不再因低速運轉系統而受挫。

Scientists used a chip called a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)，which can be configured into specific circuits by the user. This enabled the team to divide up the transistors within the chip into small groups and ask each to perform a different task. By creating more than 1,000 mini-circuits within the FPGA chip, the scientists effectively turned the chip into a 1,000-core processor — each core working on its own instructions.

科學家利用一種叫做“信息組可編程之門排列”的芯片,這種芯片可以用來設 置特定電路。研究小組把芯片上的晶體管分成很多小組，每個小組執行不同的任務。這樣一來，研究人員在“信息組可編程之門排列”芯片上創造出來1000個微電 路，成功地將電腦芯片變成1000核處理器,每個核心在各自的指令下執行任務。

The team was led by Dr. Wim Vanderbauwhede, of the University of Glasgow, and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

美國格拉斯哥大學的威姆?溫得斯保威德博士以及他在馬薩諸塞州洛厄爾大 學的同事們共同進行了此次研究。