By Aharon Etengoff, TG Daily
Tilera has launched an advanced line of TILE-Gx processors that reportedly offer “ten times better” compute efficiency than Intel’s next-generation Westmere chip.
The processors - fabricated in TSMC’s 40 nanometer process - operate at up to 1.50 GHz with power consumption ranging from 10 to 55 watts. “The TILE-Gx line, available with 16, 36, 64 and 100 cores, employs Tilera’s unique architecture that scales well beyond the core count of traditional microprocessors,” Tilera spokesperon Bob Doud told TG Daily. “Tilera’s two-dimensional iMesh interconnect eliminates the need for an on-chip bus and its Dynamic Distributed Cache (DDC) system allows each cores’ local cache to be shared coherently across the entire chip.”
