(iTers News) -A research team in South Korea has developed a high-performance, ultra-low power quad-core CPU for self-driving cars.

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A state-funded research institute called Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute or ETRI said that it has built a 1GHz CPU on its own proprietary quad core architecture.

Called as Aldebaran, the CPU is a new breed of powerful, but power-thrift computing brute that comes built with 4 cores and on-chip cache memories. It is powerful enough to cycle 1 billion times per second, but just consumes 0.24 watts, 100 times less than other 1GHz CPUs, which usually sip several hundred watts.

According to ETRI, it boasts of a 99% probability to detect and fix system breakdowns of in-car electronics components such as sudden uncontrolled acceleration.

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As its built-in cores and on-chip memory system are designed to fix all kinds of system failures.

The CPU just measures 7mm x 8mm. It can be used with a wide range of applications from robots to IoT devices.

The chip was developed in a joint effort with NextChip, Korea’s fabless chip maker. And will be fabricated at Samsung Electronics; foundry fab facility. As it is scheduled to be commercialized in 2017, the  5 global chip makers are waiting in the wind to license the CPU core.

NextChip will start shipping them for car market in 2017

 

 

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