Tilera’s 100-core Tile-GX processor won’t boil the oceans, will still melt faces

October 26th, 2009 | Category: Gadget Corner

Sixty-four, sixty-shmore… that’s so 2007 in terms of processing cores found in a restricted CPU: one hundred cores is where the future of computing resides. that magnificent engineering feat isn’t from AMD or even Intel, it’s the latest Tile-GX series of chips from the two-year old San Jose startup, Tilera. Its general purpose chips can run stand-alone or as co-processors running alongside those x86 chips that usually ship in four-, six-, or now eight-core configurations like Intel’s upcoming Nehalem-EX chip. Tilera’s 100-core chip pulls 55 watts at peak performance while its 16-core chip draws as little as 5 watts. Tilera uses the same mesh architecture as its previous 64-core chip in order to overcome the performance degradation accompanying info exchange on typical, multi-core processors — or so it says. Tilera’s new 40-nm process chips have

cranked the clock to 1.5GHz and include support for 64-bit processing. And while its processors could be applied to any number of computing scenarios, Tilera’s focusing on lucrative markets like parallel-processing where its meager developer and marketing resources can extract a relatively quick payout. The fun begins in early 2011 with volume pricing set amidst $400 and $1000.

[Via PC World]

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