Tilera To Release 100-Core Processor

angry tapir writes "Tilera has announced new general-purpose CPUs, including a 100-core chip. The two-year-old startup's Tile-GX series of chips are targeted at servers and appliances that execute Web-related functions such as indexing, Web search and video search. The Gx100 100-core chip will draw close to 55 watts of power at maximum performance."

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[wisty]

... and just imagine a Beowulf cluster of them.

Re:100?

[Fotograf]

it does if you are carefully starting applications in power of two and designing your applications to use power of two threads.

Re:100?

[glwtta]

Their plan is to eventually confuse consumers by advertising "X KiloCores! (* KC = 1000 cores)" when everyone expects a KiloCore to be 1024 cores.

Re:This is great !

[mrops]

But the more important question is...

Will it run Windows 7.

I know, I know, its the wrong questions, but the answer to the other one is always "yes".

hmm...

[Skizmo]

100 cores... that means that my cpu will never go beyond '1% busy'

Re:This is great !

[tomhath]

Whoa. If you change the source a little, you can enter 1000000 into the Maximum number of CPUs field! Linux is ready for up to a million cores.

640K cores is more than anyone will ever need.

Re:This is great !

[jellomizer]

No you really need 16,711,680 cores. So you have one core for every cell in a standard Excel 2003 sheet (Yea I know 2007 finally gave us more space)

So 65,536 rows by 255 columns. A CPU for each sell processing its own value. Excel may almost run fast.

 

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[Anonymous Coward]

100-core is binary for quad core.

Dancing Hamsters...

[jameskojiro]

It is like 100 Dancing Hamsters in your CPU.

Re:This is great !

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Give it a break, shillboy

We've all seen more than enough paid endorsements of Microsoft's latest exercise in blandness.

Settle down, Linus.