Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Tilera Shows Off 64-Core Processor



Boston (dbTechno) - Tilera was a company set up to show off and commercialize technology developed at MIT and they have created a 64-core processor.
The 64-core processor has been created for general computer applications based on technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nathan Brookwood, an analyst at Insight64, stated that “Tilera has done a lot of things no one else has done before.”

The chip is set up on a mesh system so each core can communicate separately. This allows for the data to move at a faster rate from one core to another.

Over a dozen customers are already using the Tilera chips. One of their customers is the networking applications company 3Com.

Tilera claims that the performance of their chip is 10 times that of the Intel dual-core Xeon processor.

source :dbtechno.com