Smartphones, tablets to get server power

PC World.

The Epiphany IV chip packs 64 cores, and can provide 70 gigaflops of performance, while consuming one watt of power, said Andreas Olofsson, Adapteva's CEO.

According to Tech Eye, Olofsson admits that a watt may be high for smartphones, but the chip can scale down its performance and power, and increase it when it is needed for tricky tasks, like hand-gesture recognition and face recognition.

The chip is not designed to run an operating system either. It is intended to be a co-processor to take processing load off CPUs.

According to HPC Wire, the three-year-old company is targeting the two extremes of the computing spectrum with its Epiphany architecture: supercomputing and mobile devices. The common denomination in both cases is an obsession to minimise power consumption, something the Adapteva designers have done extremely well.