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Say hello to Fujitsu’s SPARC64 VIIIfx or 'Venus' CPU chip, which, depending how you measure these things, is probably now the world’s faster computer chip. However, in the absence of a test sample, or any means to test it, we’ll just have to take that on trust. What is known is that the prototype has been clocked at 128 billion computations per second (128 gigaflops), which is apparently 2.5 times faster than its nearest rival from Intel and about a zillion times faster than the PC you are looking at now. Production is still some years away, as is the software that can make use of the phenomenal speed but the way these things work you can be pretty sure it’ll be outdated in a couple of weeks with the next world’s fastest CPU and before you know it, inside some cheesy gadget on the shelves at your local pound shop.
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