Tilera Announces 100-Core CPU for Data Centers
Tilera Announces 100-Core CPU for Data Centers
Posted 10/26/2009 at 5:17am
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Tilera today announced its new TILE-GX line of processors, including the TILE-Gx100, the world's first 100-core CPU. According to Tilera, the 100-core part offers the highest performance of any processor on the planet by at least a factor of four.
"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.
While the 100-core part is not meant to run Crysis (so please don't ask) or any other desktop application, it does offer 10 times the performance per watt as Intel's fastest Nehalem-based server chips. Assuming Tilera can convince customers to switch from Intel and Texas Instruments, The TILE-Gx100 will likely end up in data centers powering cell phone network equipment and cloud computing ventures.
Tilera says its 100-core chip will start shipping in Q4 of this year.
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cronjob
October 26, 2009 at 2:10pm
It will run cyrsis:
Just as soon as Crysis moves to the "cloud". After all, that's what this chip is built for. ...And, the chip won't care what's running on it, regardless of the O/S or hardware platform your using. You just need to setup something like OnLine Live! (or whatever it was called) to get in the game. ;) ..'Cause you'll still need video compression.
Maybe a nice distributed computing project awaits with the addition of open standards for the ATI gpu.
prince_david
October 26, 2009 at 1:22pm
Telling people not to ask about Crysis is just encouraging them more.
mattman059
October 26, 2009 at 10:27am
"While the 100-core part is not meant to run Crysis (so please don't ask) or any other desktop application"
Reading fail.
nekollx
October 26, 2009 at 9:01am
so will it run Windows (and crysis with a good GPU) or is there no way to install it inthe desktop sector
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xchrissypoox
October 26, 2009 at 2:54pm
Its not an x86 processor therefore windows has not been designed to run on it and so no games can run on it. (though there is probably definitely linux for it and that could play linux games i think, wine wouldn't work so dont say it).
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