64-core processor announced by Tilera

[helmutcheese]

" With the multi-core era still in its youth with 'native' quad-cores yet to be released, Silicon Valley-based Tilera has announced a CPU that features 64 cores. Claimed to be 10 to 30 times faster than Intel's dual-core Xeon processors, the Tile64 is a RISC-based part that features cores clocked between 600MHz and 1GHz.

Aimed towards the networking segment, the Tile64 consists of 64 units that feature a CPU, cache and a switch which can communicate with four neighboring cores at speeds of up to 500 GB/s, bringing the total bandwidth of the chip to an impressive 32 TB/s.

In addition to the processing power the Tile64 also has a great power consumption that tops only 19.2 watts. The new 64-cored CPU is now available at a price tag of $435. "

http://www.tcmagazine.info/comments.php?shownews=15786&catid=2

 

[Corasik]

Sun Niagra '2', combines MultiCore with a system similar to Hyperthreading... except it can efficiently run 8 threads on each of its cores.

So with the standard Niagra '2' 8 core CPU, you can run 64threads at the same time.

RISC computing has been going parallel for a long time now. Would be much more usefull to know how Tilera compared in performance with Niagra 2.

They may 'claim' to be faster than Xeons, but generally this only applies to highly parallel applications. In terms of performance per core the Xeon's generally win hands down.

 

[ClubCX]

I'm confused... a third competitor has appeared from nowhere, and outperforms AMD and Intel?

 

[FrankJH]

Unless I am mistaken it doesnt necessarily follow that these are X86 chips (directly compatable with AMD /Intel lines)

As stated above these kind of chips have been around a while, but even so good luck to them.

 

[mrthingyx]

I'm confused... a third competitor has appeared from nowhere, and outperforms AMD and Intel?

Don't be. Familiarise yourself with RISC v. CISC architecture and it will all become clear.

The only remotely close competitor to this sort of thing from Intel/AMD is the Intel Itanium...

However, there hasn't been a mainstream home computer using RISC hardware since Apple switched to Intel hardware, and even those were based on PowerPC chips which were not quite the same beasts as those from Sun/Tilera.

 

[PantsUK]

Interesting though considering the power requirements, obviously the clock is low though