http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/ Engadget Comments for Tilera debuts its sixty-four core processor, melts faces http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 21st 2007 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/"Yeah Risc is good."

Hackers FTW!]]>Aug 20th 2007 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/
3rd paragraph down.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/backgrnd/20011008tech_bkgrd.htm
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/17562-1.html

Can I get that 20ghz processor in multi cores please... or at leaset a duel core!]]>Aug 21st 2007 1:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC

According to this wiki, RISC type processors include PowerPC and SPARC. I would not have believed that based on the typical embedded nature of RISC CPU based designs (see also "Microcontrollers")

I doubt, though, that these processors will ever run Doom. :)]]>Aug 20th 2007 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/
Doom will run on anything with a frame buffer and a CPU.]]>Aug 20th 2007 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/
As the parent mentions though, this is certainly not an "apples for apples" comparison, since the Core's are CISC chips (at least by the classical definition). Still, quite an amazing chip.]]>Aug 20th 2007 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/
There is a small possibility you could use this for something like a web server or other server that requires a massive number of operations with low overhead but it would require a lot of software engineering and cost a lot...RISC is good for tearing through simple operations, the more cores per proc the better cause it reduces power/cooling/hardware costs.]]>Aug 20th 2007 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/
Come on bro...]]>Aug 20th 2007 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 21st 2007 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 21st 2007 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/injate: Pico's risc multicores run at 100mhz so I'd guess these are similar if not the same.
So when are the XMOS, Pico, Lattice etc articles coming to engadget? Would be remiss to only shout about 1 chip/company now wouldn't it.]]>Aug 20th 2007 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/
Are we talking besting Intel's number of cores by a factor of 30? Because 4x30=120 > 64...]]>Aug 20th 2007 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/
I used to game on an Acorn StrongARM "RiscPC" PC back in the mid 90's (yep, it was an early version the StrongARM chip you see in portables these days.) I also performed raster and vector design and did all of my office-type productivity on one. It took about 3 years for Microsoft to catch up with RISC OS and Intel a lot longer to catch up with ARM (by eventually buying them out).

The StrongARM/RISC OS PC I used back then had about 16Mb RAM and a 'tiny' HDD but ran apps equivalent to CorelDRAW with lightning speed straight off a floppy disk (I think they formatted to 1.6Mb on Acorn from memory - it still read DOS formatted 1.44Mb disks though).

I remember playing Duke Nukem, Wolfenstein, Lemmings and some cool 3d UFO demo on it. Load times and game response was unreal. It's a shame they couldn't get enough market share to stay in the game. I used to blow my fellow IT geek friends away with my RiscPC back in the day. I can only dream of a new incarnation of RISC OS buddied up with one of these CPUs, a gig or two of RAM and 100Gb+ HDD. Read: Doom times 1000.]]>Aug 20th 2007 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/
The StrongARM RISC PCs were brilliant. As with any decent platform though, you had spend some cash on decent apps to take full advantage of the capabilities of the PC. They were very easy to program as well.

Aside from the power of the StrongARM, the Operating System that was designed specifically for this chip was way ahead of its time. Acorn had a "task bar" well before Microsoft brought out Windows 95 and it was unique (i.e. not a Mac rip-off by any means.) There is quite a strong rumour that Bill Gates showed RISC OS to his head engineers when he wanted a 'revolutionary Operating system' designed.]]>Aug 20th 2007 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/
Check out wikipedia and do a search for virus (computer game).]]>Aug 21st 2007 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/
The RiscOS PC's were proper Bo! They infact helped me pass my Computing GCSE - I built a relational DB on my old 386 at some (may have been foxpro or something) then used the RiscOS PC emulator to demonstrate it at school. It ran quicker emulated than it did on my home system.

You can still buy Risc systems, but I'd have to venture that it would be a risky undertaking (pun intented).

Anyone remember a litte destop widget (yeah, not such a new invetion Apple/Yahoo/Google!) that played an animation of a train that got hijacked by bandits, then the bandits got chased by the cops?]]>Aug 21st 2007 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 21st 2007 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/
John Stracke, thanks for the history lesson, however a quick looksy tells a different story: "The StrongARM microprocessor is a faster version of the Advanced RISC Machines ARM design. It was created by Digital Equipment Corporation, but later sold to Intel who continued to manufacture it, before replacing it with the XScale." It was introduced in 1995. Fortunately Acorn had already developed an Operating System specifically for the DEC ARM chips so RISC OS and StrongARM were a match made in heaven. Intel realised that the only way to catch DEC was to buy the chip.

And Microsoft knew the only way to achieve global domination was to steal ideas from their main competitors (read: threats to market share) which included Acorn. But surely we all knew that already.]]>Aug 21st 2007 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%21Lander

Released on the Archimedes in 1987 and ran like lightning. This was before the redesigned RiscPC and StrongARM chips which is a tribute to the Acorn Operating System (RISC OS).

I always wonder what the world would have been like if Acorn/Castle could have gained a considerable foothold in the industry. The OS is still under development by a new mob I believe unfortunately now it's mainly just limited to hobbyist's and die-hard Acorn fans which makes it way to $$$ especially if I have to convert my Aussie dollars to GB Pounds.]]>Aug 21st 2007 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/
Actually, this tile architecture reminds me of nothing so much as the transputer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer]]>Aug 20th 2007 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33451/135/]]>Aug 20th 2007 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 20th 2007 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/
That's in a chip that is binary compatible backwards to the other SPARC chips, so just fire up Solaris on that baby and you have one heck of a number cruncher.

All that in a chip that draws 90-something watts... Sun is definitely kicking butt and taking names these days.]]>Aug 20th 2007 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/Aug 21st 2007 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/tilera-debuts-its-sixty-four-core-processor-melts-faces/
Put a couple hundreds of those TILE64’s and that can be a precursor toy box for a Artificial Intelligence Programmer - neutral network, hyper advance search algorithms, Cellular Automata so forth and so on.
I am sure Crey, NSA, SGI, Google, Microsoft or Wolfram Research have exclusive access to those bad boys.
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