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MIT Startup Unveils New 64-Core CPU
single-threaded writes "Tilera, a startup out of MIT, has announced that it is shipping a 64-core CPU. Called the TILE64, the CPU is fabbed on a 90nm process and is clocked at anywhere from 600MHz to 900MHz. 'What will make or break Tilera is not how many peak theoretical operations per second it's capable of (Tilera claims 192 billion 32-bit ops/sec), nor how energy-efficient its mesh network is, but how easy it is for programmers to extract performance from the device. That's the critical piece of TILE64's launch story that's missing right now, and it's what I'll keep an eye out for as I watch this product make its way in the market. Though there are any number of questions about this product that remain to be answered, one thing is for certain: TILE64 has indeed brought us into the era of 64 general-purpose, mesh-networked processor cores on a single chip, and that's a major milestone.'"
TFA doesn't say a thing about pricing of these parts. If anyone's been in touch with them, could you please let us know what they're selling for?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Not again !!
.." (translation: We FORGOT the MMU!)
...)
...
"hey, this must be an embedded chip
"It supports 64 cores and 192 (insert greek word here) flops!" (translation : guaranteed NEVER to COME CLOSE to THAT throughput, we just wanted you to know
"We have more software engineers than hardware engineers!" (translation : we outsourced all the software to India for the cost of ONE hardware engineer!)
"We are using 90 nanometer process" (translation : we cannot afford 0.65 or 0.45 nanometer process, we're a startup, HELLO !!!)
*sigh*. Not again.
MIT has never succeeded with a supercomputer before, and it looks like they're aiming to keep it that way