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Tilera releases a 36-core chip as co-founder returns
CHIP DESIGNER Tilera has started shipping its low-power 16-core and 36-core TILE-Gx processors.
Tilera, which has previously claimed to have produced a 100-core processor, is now shipping its only slightly less impressive 16-core and 36-core TILE-Gx processors. According to the firm the 40nm scale processors are being pitched at very high-end network kit and cloud workloads.
Tilera claims a single 36-core Gx chip can handle 40Gbit/s of packet forwarding and use less than 25W. The same processor, claims Tilera, beats Intel's Xeon in cloud environments, though it didn't say on what workloads.
According to Tilera the firm is working with more than 80 customers for its TILE-Gx processors.
Tilera also announced that its co-founder Devesh Garg will be returning to the firm as CEO after a four year sabbatical at a venture capitalist firm. Garg referred to the firm's 20 or so design wins, saying, "I'm returning to the helm at an excellent time and with strong tailwind."
Although Garg might be bullish about returning to Tilera, taking on Intel in the cloud market will not be an easy task. Intel's Xeon chips and even its low-powered Atom processors hold most of the market share, and while Tilera's designs are equally impressive, beating Intel is not just about having better products, something that AMD knows all too well. µ
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NOW IS THAT 1,000 CORES OR IS THAT 1,024 CORES. ALSO, CAN YOU LEGALLY CALL THEM "CORES" WHAT WITH INTEL AND ALL.
FOR INSTANCE, "MY MAC BARFED UP ITS APPLE CORE AND IT WAS A CORE 2 DUO."
AND WHY IS THE CORE ARABIC + LATIN. SEE, EVERY ONE OF THESE IS ANOTHER, WORSE PUZZLER.
with a small bit of L1 cache and sic that baby on distributed.net's Optimal Golomb Ruler project.
I like to fantasize about what would be possible if I got to pick the instruction sets and amount of different kinds of cache memory and RAM.
Of course, if I could do it, everybody else could too. So if it happens, it won't seem nearly as awesome as in my head, lol.