100 core processor a world’s first
Tilera Corporation has announced its new TILE-Gx family of general purpose processors. One of the four new products is a world first – a 100-core processor, the TILE-Gx100.
The processors are fabricated in a 40 nanometre process and operate at up to 1.5 GHz with power consumption ranging from 10 to 55 watts. The TILE-Gx series boasts a performance-per-watt level that is ten times better in compute efficiency when compared to Intel’s next generation Westmere processor.
The TILE-Gx range is available with 16, 36, 64 and 100 cores. Tilera’s two-dimensional iMesh interconnect eliminates the need for an on-chip bus and its Dynamic Distributed Cache (DDC) system allows each cores’ local cache to be shared across the entire chip.
These two key technologies enable the TILE Architecture performance to scale linearly with the number of cores on the chip – a feat that is currently unmatched.
To simplify many-core programming, Tilera has developed its own Multicore Development Environment (MDE).
Many-core evolution
“The launch of the TILE-Gx family, including the world’s first 100-core microprocessor, ushers in a new era of many-core processing. We believe this next generation of high-core count, ultra high performance chips will open completely new computing possibilities,” said Omid Tahernia, Tilera’s CEO.
“Customers will be able to replace an entire board presently using a dozen or more chips with just one of our TILE-Gx processors, greatly simplifying the system architecture and resulting in reduced cost, power consumption, and PC board area. This is truly a remarkable technology achievement,” Tahernia concluded.
“At various points in microprocessor history there have been breakthroughs that have enabled significant advances in computing, such as when the barrier of single-core clock speed was overcome by the introduction of multicore,” said Sergis Mushell, principal research analyst at Gartner.
“Cloud computing and virtualization have ushered in a new era of processing power optimization and utilization, which has accelerated the roadmaps for multicore architectures and changed the paradigm from a clock frequency discussion of the past to a new discussion about number of cores and core optimization,” Mushell concluded.
100 core processor – discussion
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