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Tilera Goes After AMD, Intel, With 100-Core CPU

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http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Tilera-Processor-TILE-Gx-100-Cores,news-32133.html

Tilera is tackling AMD and Intel with its TILE-Gx family of processors.


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Tilera Corporation earlier today announced its TILE-Gx family of processors, thus revealing the company's intentions on taking on CPU giants Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. The new series consists of four multi-core processors: 16, 36, 64, and a whopping 100 cores that could ultimately "simplify system architecture." The company even threw on the fighting gloves in its announcement, claiming that the TILE-Gx provides ten-times better compute efficiency than Intel's Westmere.

Omid Tehwenia, Tilera's CEO, said that customers would be able to yank out the twelve or more processors currently encompassing systems with just one TILE-Gx processor. Not only does it simplify the system architecture, but there's a reduced cost, an overall reduced power consumption, and even provides more space in the PC board area. "This is truly a remarkable technology achievement," he boasted.

Tilera provided a few technical specs, reporting that the processors are fabricated in TSMC's 40 nanometer process. The processors also provide speeds up to 1.5 GHz, and will use between 10 and 55 watts of power. Tilera's TILE-Gx family also features hardware acceleration engines, integrated high-performance DDR3 controllers, enhanced SIMD instruction extensions, and more.

The company said that the TILE-Gx16 (16-core version) would be ideal for cost-sensitive applications, whereas the TILE-Gx100 would be perfect for performance applications. The TILE-Gx32 is expected to be available for sampling in Q4 2010, with the other family members coming out of the closet in the following two quarters.
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OMFG now thats insane >.>
 
Are there not considerable issues relating to the licensing of Intel's x86 instruction set?

I can't see these running windows, and they will patently not be X58 compatible. I'll also have to find benchmarks before being terribly excited, 100 cores running at the speed of a pentium 2 wouldn't be all that great. Also curious about it being 100 rather than 128. Still, I suppose more information will come out in time.

May I be the first to say that most applications are barely coded for four threads, much less 64. Not relevant if current code can't run on them anyway, but I feel it should be mentioned in the first page regardless.
 
Unless I am very much mistaken Tilera's processors are proprietory, so not 80x86 or X64 compatible, so its not really competing with the intel processors for desktop or even workstation parts.

Sun's Niagra 3 should be out anytime, and its got 16 cores, with 16threads per core, thats 256 concurrent threads (Hyperthreading on steroids), picture that with a quad socket server motherboard 1024 threads!!!! But its server tech really, or high end science/math where massively parallel tasks can be executed.

Of course Intel are still working on Larrabee, which can be used as a processing engine for a GPU, or a dedicated massivly parallell computing engine, in which case its a closer comparison with Tilera processors than AMD/Intels mainstream offerings anyway.
 
Hate to be a downer on the news, as it would theoretically be great. But i cant see either intel or amd leaving themselves open like this. If a 100 core chip could be created and be powerful enough to use in desktops commercially with great speed increases then rest assured one of the two companies would have done it by now.
 
hmmm interesting

I don't think windows would be able to run as thats x86 as others have said, but still

hang on...why does it seem familiar.....*looks at intel*
 
Yes... similiar to Intel's 80 cell core cpu. Really, if this can match up to AMD and Intel, it will change the market in the near future.
 
Interesting, but with the money both Intel and AMD have behind them I really can't see this becoming of anything, both intel and AMD are huge company's and Tilera is obviously much smaller with much less money for research doubt it will trouble them in anyway
 
55W is pretty telling, It's not going to have too many transistors. If you're after multithreaded compute performance I expect that even current gen GPU's will have it beat, never mind Fermi.

Theres probably a niche for them though, I expect they offer better performance per watt than GPU's, and they could probably easily go in dual or quad socket 1U boxes.
 
I reckon the only reason Intel hasn't done this is the same reason that Intel are taking so long about bringing out 6 core processors, when they could just go straight to 8 core.

They're dragging it out in order to make more money! I bet loads of people who have already had I7 will upgrade to i9, then whatever they bring out next.

Hopefully these will become a mainstream processor, then it will force Intel and AMD to make 100 core CPUs. It's about time Intel supplied a highly clocked stock chip again aswell, they had the 3.8ghz P4 HT, so there should should be at least a 4ghz i7! (In my opinion).
 
Each of those cores isn't going to be x86 compliant, the transistor count would be crazy. It's likely to be a single, or couple of x86 cores with each having SIMD operations capable of doing 50-100 data values at once.

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http://www.tilera.com/products/TILE64.php

Runs SMP linux.. but everything screams proprietary instruction set and embedded/FPGA style programming.

edit2: hang on.. each processor has 3 registers.. I think you guys are going to have to wait a while longer :p
 
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