In recent years, with increased data volume, data-intensive computing tasks become increasingly critical. How to efficiently and effectively implement data-intensive computing on large data sets becomes a major research direction for data-intensive computing. Currently, researchers attempt to use new processors to accelerate the data-intensive computing process. Different acceleration approaches could be adopted according to the characteristics of new processors. In this paper, the new processors, well as the algorithms, for data-intensive computing research are surveyed. First, the new features of processors are reviewed. Then the capability of each new processors and their performance over data intensive computing are analyzed. Finally, the future research directions are discussed.