Star MIT Startup Raises Multicore Bar with New 64-Core CPU
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Aug 2007 19:20 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems "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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RE[3]: ?? instruction set ??
by rayiner on Mon 20th Aug 2007 21:00 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: ?? instruction set ??"
rayiner
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2005-07-06

The Core 2 is actually less RISC-y internally than the P4. The P4 is internally a pure u-op design. The Core 2 caries fused u-ops (eg: mem-op instructions) through much of the frontend of the core.

As for PPC, ARM, and MIPS, one of those three does not belong. MIPS is a great instruction set. PowerPC is poo.

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RE[4]: ?? instruction set ??
by Kroc on Mon 20th Aug 2007 21:15 in reply to "RE[3]: ?? instruction set ??"
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2005-11-10

My bad then, but there are a number of variants of ARM, so it can be tight in some instances where even simple op-codes are un-available. However the Commodore style design, and the neat conditional prefixes make it a somewhat creative processor.

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RE[5]: ?? instruction set ??
by rayiner on Mon 20th Aug 2007 21:40 in reply to "RE[3]: ?? instruction set ??"
rayiner Member since:
2005-07-06

Oh, ARM is fine. It's PPC that doesn't belong. I just don't like the basic design (too many weird instructions, no separate 32-bit and 64-bit operations, etc).

MIPS is my favorite, but x86-64 comes in a close second. It's so much better than people give it credit for. It's actually quite orthogonal in its addressing and operand modes. You get 8-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit registers, along with 8-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit operations. You get 8-bit and 32-bit immediates and displacements, instead of the oddly-sized immediates and displacements you usually get in RISC. Instructions that write to fixed registers and two-operand instructions suck a bit, but you can deal with both quite easily in the register allocator.

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RE[6]: ?? instruction set ??
by anevilyak on Mon 20th Aug 2007 21:50 in reply to "RE[5]: ?? instruction set ??"
anevilyak Member since:
2005-09-14

I miss MIPS, it was the instruction set they used to teach us assembler back at college. So nice and straightforward.

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