ARM in a supercomputer race

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Published: Wednesday, 07 September 2016 15:12

ARM announced a new design chip for supercomputing.


The new ARM processor design will be based on the 64-bit ARM-v8A architecture and have vector processing extensions called Scalable Vector Extension.


ARM's new supercomputer chip design with vector extensions will be in Japan's Post-K computer, which will be deployed in 2020. Arm drops its  trusty SPARC architecture in favor of ARM for high-performance computers.


More details at: PCWorld