In simple terms, this isn't really a 1000 core processor in the traditional sense, this is a reprogrammable GPU (which is close enough that the title makes sense). That's not necessarily either better or worse, but the title is a little sensational.<p>The really interesting part is at the end of the article when they quote the researchers saying "This is very early proof-of-concept work where we’re trying to demonstrate a convenient way to program FPGAs so that their potential to provide very fast processing power could be used much more widely in future computing and electronics." A more convenient way to program FPGAs goes along with things like CUDA/OpenCL to make massive data parallelism more accessible.
Not quite the 1,000 cores but with GreenArrays you can get 144 cores on a square cm for $20 a piece. They can do only integer math in hardware though. Comes with a free forth based SDK.<p>Wish I knew enough embedded systems to play with this toy.
I am the only one who sees the growing number or cores as proof that transistor density growth is sigmoid and not geometric? At least, not anymore.<p>The fact that we have entered the sigmoid stage is kind of depressing.