Beyond Quad-Core: Tera-Scale Computing

Spurred by increasing globalization, growing device intelligence,and the explosion of digital data, Intel believes the next decade’sapplications will be much more computationally intensive thananything we’ve seen to date. This will be the “tera era”—an agewhen people need teraflops (a trillion floating point operations persecond) of computing power, terabits (a trillion bits per second ofcommunications bandwidth), and terabytes (1,024 gigabytes) ofdata storage to handle the information all around them.