<A href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/11/supercomputer-han/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29" target="_blank">Intel's new Knights Corner processor has more than 50 general-purpose Pentium microprocessor</A> cores on a single chip letting it perform about 1 trillion calculations per second. In 1996 it required 72 racks of servers to perform the same number of calculations.