When your desktop PC, your laptop or your mobile devices turn into supercomputing workstations, you will have tech whiz Nitin Borkar and his Intel teams to thank.
In the next five to 10 years, when your desktop PC, your laptop or your mobile devices will turn into supercomputing workstations, you will have Mumbai-born tech whiz Nitin Borkar and his Intel teams at Oregon, USA and Bangalore to thank. On Tuesday, Borkar, engineering manager at Intel’s Microprocessor Technology Labs, unveiled the world’s fastest, most energy-efficient microprocessor — an 80-core chip the size of fingernail that can perform trillions of operations per second.
“Our research team has kept Moore’s Law alive,” Borkar said during an exclusive interview with DNA. Moore’s Law, postulated by Intel’s co-founder Gordon Moore,
essentially says that microprocessors will double in capacity and halve in price every 18 months. Ever since the “law” was put forward, technologists across the world have feared one thing: what if the space runs out on a microprocessor? Leaps in computing technology by Intel and rival AMD such as the dual core and quad core processors were considered significant, but neither comes close to the Teraflop Research Processor.
When the project began 18 months ago, Borkar gave his Oregon and the recently-formed Bangalore teams a significant challenge: create the world’s fastest processor using just 100 watts of power. “Well, we did much better than that,” Borkar, a 21-year veteran at Intel, said. “At 62 watts, the processor uses the same amount of power a normal desktop uses.” .
Born and educated in Mumbai, Borkar headed to the US in 1982 after completing his masters in physics. He joined Intel in 1986 after a Masters in electrical engineering at the Louisiana State University. Talking about his experience at Intel he said: “My first and only job and I would never leave it”
Working with a newly-formed Bangalore team was also a breakthrough, Borkar said. “We knew the team was brilliant, and we decided that it had to dive in. We think of it as a long-term investment. The team has shown how Intel can work across continents to create a great product.”
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