Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Aug 2007 19:20 UTC
"A new startup out of MIT emerged from stealth mode today to announce that they're shipping a 64-core processor for the embedded market. The company, called Tilera, was founded by Dr. Anat Agarwal, the MIT professor behind the famous and venerable Raw project on which Tilera's first product, the TILE64 processor, is based. Tilera's director of marketing, Bob Dowd, told Ars that TILE64 represents a "sea change in the computing industry", and the company's CEO isn't shy about pitching the chip as the "first significant new chip architectural development in a decade". So let's take an initial look at what was announced about TILE64 today, with further information to follow as it becomes available."
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2006-11-26
According to the article, this isn't an extension of the x86 architecture but it's own cpu architecture. This scores well in my book.
The thing that would make or break this cpu is how well the programmer can extract performance from this thing. I for one, hope that more people learn about proper concurrency techniques, because God knows that there aren't enough people that know how to think in parallel.