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The world’s biggest chip maker Intel Corp. has taken wrap off its new computer chip that is efficient enough to perform about one trillion calculations a second, or deliver a performance of 1.01 teraflops while consuming energy equivalent to that of a light bulb. When it is clocked at a frequency of 3.16Ghtz, it performs 1.01 teraflops consuming 62 watts of power. Although the new chip is still in R&D phase, it will surely set a breakthrough if we talk about high performance at low energy consumption. Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief technology officer said: What we’re trying to do is take microprocessor performance to the next level – that’s what’s motivating us. Well, it’s not clear at the moment if there is any OS that is proficient enough to control this chip. The chip comes integrating 80 core calculating engines onto a single slice of silicon. It has 100 million transistors embedded onto its surface. The probable use of these chips would be in corporate data centres, supercomputers, communications infrastructures and for heavy-duty financial and scientific research.