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Fuzzy Logic Tilera seeks processor performance crown with 64-cores
Fuzzy Logic Tilera seeks processor performance crown with 64-cores | Tilera seeks processor performance crown with 64-cores |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 20 August 2007 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Part of Tilera’s success in integrating so many cores is thanks to the development of the iMesh Interconnect. Instead of working with a central memory unit through which all chip communications must pass, as is the case with existing multi-core technologies, Tilera’s technology is designed to eliminate this bottleneck. Featured Whitepaper
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As has been the case with existing dual and quad-core processors, getting programmers to write software that best takes advantage of the multiple cores now on offer is proving to be the most difficult part of the transition to a multi-core world, but as with all new developments, programmers are responding to the new reality and are learning to program accordingly. Now that we live in a multi-core world, with hundreds and thousands more cores to soon become standard on computers everywhere, the problem of programs optimized only for a single core will soon become a problem of the past, especially when you consider that Tilera’s 64-core TILE64 is available today. Tilera say that the TILE64 starts at US $435 each in units of 10,000, and will in the future be joined by 36-core and 120-core models. No doubt it will spur Intel, AMD, IBM, Texas Instruments and other chip manufacturers to ramp up their production timelines and R&D to nullify whatever advatange Tilera has as quickly as possible, resulting in better technology for us all, faster, although any kind of multi-core computing utopia is still likely many decades away. Until then, live long, multi-core, and propser! |
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