The world’s first 100-core processor, the Tile-Gx100, intends to increase performance by having many cores running at modest clock speeds rather than just driving up clock frequency.
The two-year-old startup’s Tile-GX series of chips are targeted at servers and appliances that execute Web-related functions such as indexing, Web search and video search, said Anant Agarwal, cofounder and chief technology officer of Tilera.
“This is a general-purpose chip that can run off-the-shelf programs almost unmodified,” says Anant Agarwal. “And we can do that while offering at least four times the compute performance of an Intel Nehalem-Ex, while burning a third of the power as a Nehalem.” While this may seem like no match for Intel’s Nehalem processors which top out at around 3.3GHz (and burn up to 130 watts).
“[The processors] raise the bar for performance-per-watt to new levels with 10 times better compute efficiency compared to Intel’s next-generation Westmere processor,” the company said in a statement.
In addition, Tilera’s Tile-Gx family of chips also will include new versions of its 36- and 64-core products.
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