Startup Wants To Put 64-Cores In Your Smartphone

angry tapir writes "Startup chip design company Adapteva has announced the multicore Epiphany processor, which is designed to accelerate applications in servers and low-power devices such as smartphones and tablets. The RISC-based processor is scalable to thousands of cores on a single chip, and can sit alongside CPUs to provide real-time execution of diverse applications. Epiphany chips are currently scalable up to 64 cores in smartphones and up to 4,000 cores in servers. The processor can accelerate tasks like hand gesture recognition, face matching or face tracking, but is not designed to be a full-fledged CPU."

Comments

Re:Um...why?

[Darinbob]

Because marketing thinks that if they have N cores it will sell better than a phone with only N-1 cores. And they're probably right.

Any tech that has testimonials

[mrmeval]

Smells of infomercials and burned popcorn.