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Tilera To Release 100-Core Processor

Posted by timothy on from the and-then-they-stopped-counting dept.

angry tapir writes "Tilera has announced new general-purpose CPUs, including a 100-core chip. 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. The Gx100 100-core chip will draw close to 55 watts of power at maximum performance."

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  1. Re:100? by Fotograf · · Score: 5, Funny

    it does if you are carefully starting applications in power of two and designing your applications to use power of two threads.

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  2. Re:100? by glwtta · · Score: 5, Funny

    Their plan is to eventually confuse consumers by advertising "X KiloCores! (* KC = 1000 cores)" when everyone expects a KiloCore to be 1024 cores.

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