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Tilera Launches 100-Core Processor, Tells Sandy Bridge 'What's Up Now?'

Posted 06/23/2011 at 5:39am | by Paul Lilly

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We know what you're thinking. With a 100-core processor, you can finally play Crysis with all the eye candy turned up and still have CPU cycles left over for Folding@home. That's probably true, but that's not what Tilera's new TILE-Gx 3000 processor family is intended for. These general purpose chips are destined for data centers where, according to Tilera, they have a distinct advantage over Intel's Sandy Bridge processors.

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