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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2005-11-10
If anything x86 isn't exactly a great architecture, just "good enough". If you've tried programming it, you know that even 6502 is more elegant.
PPC, ARM, MIPS &c are all excellent architectures which can be programmed highly, highly efficiently by someone who knows what they're doing and isn't clouded by doing things solely the x86 way.
Oh, and modern CPUs like the Core Duo emulate x86 macros down to more a more RISC-like central set. This is how Intel managed to make the jump from the hot, high-power P4's to relatively cooler and lower power Dual Core chips.