Tilera throws gauntlet at Intel's feet

Upstart mega-multicore chip maker Tilera has not yet started sampling its future Tile-Gx 3000 series of server processors, and companies have already locked in orders for the chips. That is how eagerly hyperscale data center operators are anticipating some alternative to power-hungry Xeon processors from Intel and Opteron …

[Tom 7]

Each core burns 1/2 watt!

Give me a 36 core in a handheld that runs on a couple of processors while on battery and then pops up to say '42' when I plug in the recharger - Angry Birds in 6D...

[Michael H.F. Wilkinson]

Sounds interesting

Given the speed-up we get on 24 core machines, I would like to pit them against these machines

[envmod]

cyberdyne

that processor looks a lot like the one that used to be in arnie's T-600 and was left in that factory :0

[King1Con]

Looks like the T Strategy

Looks like the strategy used to develop the SPARC T-line of processors... right down to the embedded 10 GigE

What's old is new again!

[toughluck]

Why doesn't Tilera compare their CPU to SPARC?

Interestingly, Tilera didn't seem to show whether there are any advantages in the merge-sort when compared to a SPARC T3 CPU. Since T3 is also made on 40 nm, the comparison would make sense in that regard, especially since both CPUs are RISC designs.

[BozNZ]

Competition is good

I really wonder what would be powering our PC's now if Intel had no competition?

[Captain TickTock]

And can it...

... run Crysis IV...?