Vuunet is carrying an article on a recent announcement by IBM and Cisco of plans to jointly design and build what they claim will be the world's most complex programmable custom chip.
The aim is to produce a chip capable of delivering 40Gbps data throughput over Cisco's recently hyped CRS-1 IP Carrier Routing System.
The Cisco Silicon Packet Processor is a 40Gbps application-specific integrated circuit featuring 38 million gates, more than 187 million transistors and 188 high-performance programmable 32-bit Risc processors. The device will be able to execute 47 billion instructions per second.
The full story can be seen here.