Tilera has unveiled a new Tile-Gx family of four new processors, which it claims to include the world’s first 100-core processor, the Tile-Gx100.
Tilera claims that the Tile-Gx family raises the bar for performance-per-watt to new levels with ten times better compute efficiency compared to Intel’s Westmere processor.
The company said that it simplified many-core programming with its Multicore Development Environment (MDE) together with an ecosystem of operating system and software partners to enable product deployment.
According to Tilera, the new Tile-Gx family, available with 16, 36, 64, 100 cores, employs architecture that scales beyond the core count of traditional microprocessors. The two-dimensional iMesh interconnect eliminates the requirement for an on-chip bus and its Dynamic Distributed Cache (DDC) system allows each cores’ local cache to be shared across the entire chip. These two technologies enable the Tile Architecture performance to scale linearly with the number of cores on the chip.
The Tile-Gx family operates at up to 1.5GHz with power consumption ranging from 10 to 55 watts. It incorporates many cores on a single chip together with integrated memory controllers and a set of I/O. It also comes with several new features such as 64-bit core with full virtual memory system. Each core includes 32KB L1 I-cache, 32KB L1 D-cache and 256KB L2 cache, with up to 26MB total L3 coherent cache across the device, the company said.
In addition, the new family also includes improved signal processing performance with a 4 MAC/cycle multiplier unit that delivers up to 600 billion MACs per second, integrated DDR3 memory controllers, packet processing accelerator, and hardware acceleration engines.
The Tile-Gx processor family is suitable for a range of markets including enterprise networking, cloud computing, multimedia and wireless infrastructure, with the Tile-Gx16 targeting cost-sensitive applications and the Tile-Gx100 targeting performance applications.
Omid Tahernia, CEO of Tilera, said: “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.
“Customers will be able to replace an entire board presently using a dozen or more chips with just one of our TILE-Gx processors, greatly simplifying the system architecture and resulting in reduced cost, power consumption, and PC board area.”
The company said that the Tile-Gx36 processor will be sampling in fourth quarter of 2010 with the other processors rolling out in the following two quarters.
