Loading ...Tilera unveils 64-core microchip
SAN FRANCISCO: Tilera, a Silicon Valley semiconductor start-up, is unveiling a single microchip with 64 processing units, or cores, in a technological jump generations ahead of the mainstream.
In recent years, microprocessor makers like Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have had to grapple with ever-increasing amounts of power consumed as they cranked up the basic clock speed at which their chips worked.
Now, instead of ratcheting up how quickly the chip cycles, Intel, AMD and others are assembling multiple cores, or processing brains, on a single chip, which lifts performance while keeping down the consumption of electricity.
“You lay out these cores much like you do tiles on a floor,” said Anant Agarwal, Tilera founder and chief technology officer. “By 2014, you will see a 1,000-core chip coming out.”
Tilera, with $40 million in venture funding, will for now position its chip to be used in the advanced networking and digital multimedia space, Agarwal said. It has a dozen customers integrating its TILE64 processor into products in those markets.
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