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 sens

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. 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.