Broadcom Corp. (Irvine Calif.) has made an investment in multicore processor developer Tilera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.). Neither the amount of money invested, nor the percentage size of Broadcom’s stake, were disclosed, but Tilera has appointed Nariman Yousefi, senior vice president of infrastructure technologies at Broadcom, to the Tilera board of directors.

Tilera’s processors are based on its iMesh architecture that scales to hundreds of RISC-based cores on a single chip. The distributed nature, of Tilera’s architecture, is supported by an ANSI C/C++ compiler, GNU tools and Eclipse IDE. Tilera was founded in October 2004, and now provides two product families: TILE64 processors and TILEPro processors.

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