Tilera announces world's first 100-core processor with TILE-Gx family

SAN JOSE, USA: Tilera Corp. announced its new TILE-Gx family -- four new processors from Tilera including the world's first 100-core processor: the TILE-Gx100.

The TILE-Gx100 offers the highest performance of any microprocessor yet announced by a factor of four. Moreover, the entire TILE-Gx family raises the bar for performance-per-watt to new levels with ten times better compute efficiency compared to Intel's next generation Westmere processor.

And Tilera has simplified many-core programming with its breakthrough Multicore Development Environment (MDE) together with a growing ecosystem of operating system and software partners to enable rapid product deployment.

The TILE-Gx family -- available with 16, 36, 64 and 100 cores -- employs Tilera's unique architecture that scales well beyond the core count of traditional microprocessors.

Tilera's two-dimensional iMesh interconnect eliminates the need for an on-chip bus and its Dynamic Distributed Cache (DDC) system allows each cores' local cache to be shared coherently across the entire chip. These two key technologies enable the TILE Architecture performance to scale linearly with the number of cores on the chip -- a feat that is currently unmatched.

“"The launch of the TILE-Gx family, including the world's first 100-core microprocessor, ushers in a new era of many-core processing. We believe this next generation of high-core count, ultra high-performance chips will open completely new computing possibilities,” said Omid Tahernia, Tilera's CEO.

“Customers will be able to replace an entire board presently using a dozen or more chips with just one of our TILE-Gx processors, greatly simplifying the system architecture and resulting in reduced cost, power consumption, and PC board area. This is truly a remarkable technology achievement.”

Leading evolution to many-core
Tilera's breakthroughs in scalable multicore computing are changing the model of computing. Many-core processors enable a wide range of new opportunities including:

Consolidation of functions: A single many-core processor can absorb functions that previously required multiple processors, thus lowering system cost and providing a single software tool chain and programming model for developers.

Granularity of compute: Processing resources can be allocated to functions in precise increments, optimizing performance and saving power.

Deterministic compute: Enables processor cores to be dedicated to specific tasks, including cache-coherent islands of compute, for highly predictable performance.

“At various points in microprocessor history there have been breakthroughs that have enabled significant advances in computing, such as when the barrier of single-core clock speed was overcome by the introduction of multicore,” said Sergis Mushell, principal research analyst, Gartner.

“Cloud computing and virtualization have ushered in a new era of processing power optimization and utilization, which has accelerated the roadmaps for multicore architectures and changed the paradigm from a clock frequency discussion of the past to a new discussion about number of cores and core optimization.”