Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
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.
Tilera say that they place a “communications switch on each processor core and arranging them in a grid fashion on the chip”, creating “an efficient 2-dimensional traffic system for packets, much like the layout of a modern city's streets”, enabling “better aggregate bandwidth, shorter distance between cores and delivering excellent performance with ultra-lower power consuming”.
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.
David Bass
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