By Elina Shatkin, April 5, 2004
Teranex, Inc., the leader in image processing for digital media content, will introduce a new line of products based on their next-generation, patented array processing chip, code named P4K. This new platform will deliver a 10x performance increase over the previous version.
The P4K array processor chip can bring supercomputer performance for image processing applications to the desktop. For example, a PC outfitted with Teranex technology will provide approximately 1.6 TeraOps of performance,reducing the time required for processor-intensive high-definition rendering effects by one-third
. At this level of performance, the PC would qualify as one of the most powerful image processing systems in the world.
The P4K chip is a massively parallel supercomputer organized in a two dimensional Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) architecture with 4096 RISC-type computers on a single chip operating in unison. The computers, called Pixel Elements (PEs) are arranged in a two-dimensional grid - 64 Pes wide by 64 PEs high - providing the building block for system scalability. Scalability is achieved by creating an array of P4K chips providing linear performance improvements with each chip executing more than 400 Giga operations per second.
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