As we all know in electronic communication, if we send the data through parallel lines then we can achieve the high speed. Parallel processing does the same thing in processor.
In a simple way parallel processing means doing more than one task at the same time. This technique came into reality by the invention of dual core processors.
By analogy you can take it as what will happen if you will have to use your one hand only and on the other side when you can use both hands. Obviously you can do more than one task by using two hands in most cases.
New generation microprocessors have the same technology and they have multiple cores processing unit in single processor. These cores help the microprocessor to do multiple task at the same time which means cores enhances the speed of the microprocessor.
In microprocessors parallel processing is also referred as pipe-lining where they can use one core for opcode fetch and the other core fore instruction execution.
Microprocessor can have multiple processors like dual core, quad core, hexa-core, octa-core, deca-core etc.
Tera flop research chip (Polaris) has 80 cores and clocked at 3.16 GHz.
Intel’s new Xeon processors have upto 60 cores. Thanks for reading. Like, share and subscribe us to get the notifications about new tech posts.