Chipmaker Tilera, clearly bored with the peasant-like core counts of two or four as offered by such pedestrian competition like
Intel and
AMD, has decided to turn the game up a notch with their latest diabolical creation: the 64-core processor. That's right folks, Tilera's TILE64 is a new RISC CPU aimed at integrated systems like routers, switches, video conferencing, and set-top boxes that can best Intel's finest by a factor of 30, and casually rocks a bandwidth of something like 32TB per second. The new chip circumvents bottleneck problems that can plague CPUs like Intel's multi-core processors by utilizing a unique "mesh" architecture which allows each core to be decentralized and thus able to communicate more freely with any partner in the grid. Tilera believes the technology might open the door to hundreds or even thousands of cores using the new system. Of course, this
is a RISC CPU, so clearly the applications in which it will be used differ somewhat from Intel's offerings, but nevertheless, it remains a tantalizing development in the world of multi-core R&D.
[Via
TG Daily]
posted August 20th 2007 1:34PM
I bet this thing is faster than the speed that electricity travels. It could probably run without solid memory just running clock cycles with the data over and over again. What does everyone think?
God I love RISC.. Just recently OC'd an old Beige G3 233Mhz to 333Mhz for use as a simple web server by tweaking the J16 jumper positions on the mobo, the thing booted right up into OS-X, ran for eight hours straight, no over heating, no nothing. Still kickin ass after ten years. You just can't beat quality like that...
If you visited the site you'd read what it is used for, and unfortunately one of these things is 'deep packet inspection', or in other words it's used to spy on you, and optionally to do things like reduce your speed if you try to use p2p like torrents, isn't it grand what efforts are done to suppress the people?
Go back in your hyperbaric bomb shelter.
UHm, deep packet inspection is becoming mandatory in the US you know, and in many other countries, and has been popular for years already in saudi arabia to censor their subscribers, all ISP's nowadays must make provisions for the authorities to tap subscribers, and to make that possible they need such things.
And seeing the ISP's have the things installed they can and do also use it to apply their own policies, this isn't some conspiracy thing, this is public and discussed openly.
Perhaps you should crawl out of your shelter to have a look around?
And as I said, the site of the makers of this CPU actually mention deep packet inspection by name, how clear can it get?
Will it play Wii Sports?
Do YOU play Wii Sports?
Yeah, I'm the best. I'm e-athlete material. Wanna be my agent? I'll give you 5%.
Is this thing completely symetrical? The pins are not keyed, and that would be a sad loss of a large investment.