Tilera Releases 64-Way Chip Dev Tools

eldavojohn writes to tell us that Tilera has released a Linux-based development kit for their 64-core system on a chip. "The Tile64 is based on a proprietary VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture, on which a MIPS-like RISC architecture is implemented in microcode. A hypervisor enables each core to run its own instance of Linux, or alternatively the whole chip can run Tilera's 64-way SMP (symmetrical multiprocessing) Linux implementation. An 'iMesh' switching interconnect, developed by Tilera's founder, MIT professor and serial entrepreneur Dr. Anant Agarwal, is said to eliminate the centralized bus intersection that limited scalability in previous multicore designs."

Comments

How much for one?

[rossz]

I hate press releases like this. "$435 in 10,000 quantities". How much for just one of the damn things with the software I need to fool around with it? Is that too much to ask? It would be cool to have one of these, but I'm sure it won't be worth the effort or the expense (I figure a single unit will be at least double the quantity price).