Tilera Unveils Details for Multicore Chips

MIT出身者が設立したスタートアップ米Tilera Corp.がマイクロプロセッサを拾うという話。1000個の演算エンジンを内蔵可能という。

Tilera's technology isn't targeted at computers, a market where chip makers such as Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are now selling products with two microprocessors on a piece of silicon. Instead, the start-up is targeting special video-processing hardware and networking devices. Tilera says it is shipping its chips now and has about a dozen customers.

昔からこの手のプロセサは存在する。市場開拓に難渋しているCellも仲間。メディア・プロセサなるものが騒がれたときもあった。現在も，Tileraと競合するメーカーは多々存在するらしい。

Ambric Inc., of Beaverton, Ore., has a 344-processor chip based on a mesh design that it also believes can scale to thousands of microprocessors, said Leigh Anderson, its product marketing manager.

Stream Processors Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed a chip with 80 specialized cores, called arithmetic logic units, arranged in 16 groups to allow data to move through the product at very high speed, the company says.