Back in 2010, an Intel researcher said 1,000-core processors would be feasible. We’re in that era, and the race to make chips faster and more power efficient is gaining steam.

The latest mega-chip is a 1,024-core processor called Epiphany V, which was announced by Adapteva on Wednesday. Adapteva claims it will have enough juice to outperform some of the latest gaming and server processors.

It has 24 more cores than the 1,000-core KiloCore, a test chip made by researchers at University of California, Davis. The Epiphany V and KiloCore cram a mind-numbing number of power-efficient cores into small chips.

The Epiphany V chip isn’t designed for gaming — it’s aimed more at real-time image processing, autonomous driving, and machine learning, said Andreas Olofsson, founder of Adapteva.

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