A single-chip parallel processing element called the Blitzen, integrating 1.1m transistors on a single one square centimetre 1.25 micron CMOS chip has been designed by a team at the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina in Research Triangle Park. The plan is to use 128 of the chips to create a massively parallel supercomputer that would be small enough to be installed on a space station or in a satellite.
