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Tilera Corporation has developed the world’s first 100-core processor – TILE-Gx100. He and three other models included in the new family of processors TILE-Gx.

In family TILE-Gx includes models with 16, 36, 64 and 100 cores. This provides easy scaling of unique architecture, which distinguishes the development Tilera from other processors. Two-dimensional network of interconnections iMesh eliminates the need for a shared bus, and the system Dynamic Distributed Cache (DDC) provides the sharing of the local cache in each core all the other cores. To simplify the development of programs that can take advantage of new processors, Tilera offers a development environment Multicore Development Environment (MDE).

For performance TILE-Gx100 surpasses any of the announced today four processors. A characteristic feature of all models of the family TILE-Gx is the high value of specific performance per watt, in other words, energy efficiency. On this indicator, the new processors Intel Westmere processors exceed an order of magnitude.

According to Computers Internet Blog tests TILE-Gx processors are designed to produce 40-nanometer technology at the facilities of the company TSMC. They operate at speeds up to 1.5 GHz, consuming from 10 to 55 watts. At the disposal of each 64-bit kernel is a 64 KB cache memory of the first level (from 32 KB for instructions and data), 256 KB cache level and up to 26 MB cache in the third level (shared with other nuclei). In processors integrated DDR3 memory controller and I / O subsystem, as well as hardware acceleration blocks of packet processing, encryption and decryption of data

The main areas of application TILE-Gx is called network equipment, “cloud computing» (cloud computing), a multimedia wireless infrastructure. The range of solutions ranges from inexpensive (TILE-Gx16) to high (TILE-Gx100).

Study sample processor TILE-Gx36 company promises to release in the fourth quarter of 2010, study samples of other models should appear in the first half of 2011.

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