MIT Startup Raises Multicore Bar with New 64-Core CPU

August 20th, 2007 | Category: OS

“A new startup out of MIT emerged from stealth mode nowadays 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 meaningful new chip architectural development in a decade”. So let’s take an initial look at what was announced about TILE64 nowadays, with further info to follow as it becomes available.”

Original post by (Thom Holwerda)

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