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Are we ready yet for the era of tile computing?

Jack Schofield
The Guardian
Thursday August 23 2007

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No, but that isn't going to stop start-ups like Tilera from trying. At the 19th annual Hot Chips semiconductor conference at Stanford University, California, Tilera said it had started shipping Tile64 processors to customers such as 3Com.

Although this is a 64-core version, Tilera reckons it can go up to 1,000 cores. Intel and AMD, which supply the mass market, are only just establishing dual-core and quad-core designs.

Tilera was founded by Anant Agarwal, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He created a tiled, mesh-based multicore architecture there in the 1990s.