Tilera 100-core Processor Faster then New Xeons?

29th October, 2009 by Adina
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Tilera has unveiled its new processor meant to dethrone Intel from its absolute leadership. The TILE-Gx100 relies on a massive parallel 100-core architecture capable to handle multiple tasks at once. Tilera has simplified many-core programming with its Multicore Development Environment (MDE) together with a growing ecosystem of operating system and software partners to enable rapid product deployment. Instead of using a data bus, the grid is viewed as a mesh network with switches on each core for smooth routing of data. This way, there is no delay and no additional space needed by the bus architecture.

This unconventional design is supposed to make the processor ten times more power-efficient than Intel’s 32 nanometer Westmere architecture and also four times faster than Intel’s eight-core Xeons based on the Nehalem-EX design.

Intel has its own version of similar routing and has shown an 80-core research design which is not meant to be produced for the next few years.

The 100-core chip is supposed to be available by early 2010 and will already support x86 applications through recompiling code. Fully native support isn’t expected in the near future.


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