Tilera partners with Octera to capitalize on increased demand for Tilera processors

SAN JOSE, USA: Tilera Corp., a leader in many-core general purpose microprocessors, has announced a distribution partnership with Octera Solutions for North America.

Octera Solutions is a focused demand creation driven distributor with a proven track record of design excellence, technical support and strong customer relationships for complex semiconductor products.

"Tilera is very excited to bring on Octera as our distribution partner for North America as a way to expand and develop a broad customer base. Octera is a highly competent partner that will focus on demand creation and customer support," says Ken Way, vice president of Worldwide Sales at Tilera. "Octera will play a key role in accelerating Tilera's momentum in our target markets; cloud computing, wireless, multimedia and networking."

"Tilera is an ideal addition to the Octera Solutions linecard," commented John Burton, president of Octera Solutions. "Our focus is on high end digital technology and our expertise in Linux and design services combined with Tilera plays perfectly to our target markets of networking, video and computing technology. We think Tilera has and will continue to redefine the performance and power consumption metrics available from a processor in all these areas."

Tilera continues to expand its sales and partnerships reach worldwide to satisfy the increasing demands for its two generations of processors currently shipping and its TILE-Gx family, which will begin sampling later this year and will range from 16-100 cores.