Tilera Goes After AMD, Intel, With 100-Core CPU

[gsacks]

Color me skeptical...

 

[superblahman123]

But will it run Crysis?...

 

[Miharu]

PC World: "The chips will start shipping next year, with the 100-core chip scheduled to ship in early 2011. Volume pricing for the chips will range from US$400 to $1,000. ".

It's hope it's interresting technology because power core could be not optimazed for something like SSE/SSE2+ instructions... and lose all theirs power cores for stupid math instructions.

"ten-times better compute efficiency"... I like to see is this us not just for show off. This could be just an a 100x math calculator...

 

[chesterman86]

please, bench these things soon as they get here.

 

[thomaseron]

Can it run win3.0?

 

[raptor550]

VAPORWARE.

 

[Zoonie]

Hurray for more competition!

Unfortunatly, when something is too good to be true, it normally is =/

 

[Guest]

all i want are more detail

 

[rbarone69]

Are you guys crazy? Excessive? REALLY?

Get out of the gamer world and into the server arena. The farm that I manage is hosts to over 6000 connections at any given time ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING. Having 100 cores will reduce my need for multiple servers, large expensive servers, cooling equipment and wiring to say the least.


Expand your mind past PC use!

 

[Zoonie]

BTW, the CEO's name is Omid Tahernia!

 

[bustapr]

Guess we'll just have to wait for the q4 2010( I bet there's gonna be like a thousand delays) to see if this is true, and if it's really good. Not to mention it's skyrocket price-range.

 

[ssalim]

Cost, we want to see the cost!
(and the benchmark)

 

[sycon]

[citation][nom]cyberkuberiah[/nom]these processors are for servers with massive number of threads running , not for our average desktop ![/citation]

Not only that, but there's definitely the possibility for the lower end versions such as the 16 and 32 cores to be useful in the desktop market. Windows 7 was designed to be largely scalable as to the number of cores thus allowing higher performance from multiple cores even if single applications are not designed to utilize that many cores. Granted 100 cores would be excessive since very few desktop users will even execute 100 concurrent processes or even 25 or 50 multi-threaded processes. But the possibility for improved latency and performance is there.

 

[Impulse Fire911]

but can it play (you all know it)....SOLITARE?

 

[jimmysmitty]

[citation][nom]cyberkuberiah[/nom]the upcoming nvidia fermi has 512 cores with a coding model somewhat more similar to traditional SMP systems , with 16 concurrent kernels (independent code) at one time . think massively parallel , guys . fermi , larrabee , HPC etc . how about ray tracing on one of these ?[/citation]

Not true cores though. And thats where this stands out. Much like Intels Terascale, this will have many simple cores. Fermi is more like ATIs HD5K series that has 1600 shader "cores". Not true but still do the job.

 

[dreamer77dd]

well if they make software to be scalable then this could take off. Software makers new a longtime ago that this would happen it about time they started to develop for it. It be nice if the company also provided the tools to developed for such a chip. you would not need a physics card if you have 100 cores. I always have lag when i am doing something i wish things would just happen on a computer even if it is crappy programing. Do you know how long it takes Adode reader to load, by then i am already off reading some other website.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

*jaw drops* Damn , thats even good for Notebooks!

 

[WheelsOfConfusion]

Tilera processors use a kind of MIPS-ish ISA, rather than x86 (or even ARM). That means you have to start with a MIPS toolchain (and probably some proprietary stuff on top of it) to compile software for these things. Obviously, no Windows or MS Server support. I think your OS options are going to be exclusively *NIX here.

 

[dreamer77dd]

not really into ray tracing as i believe they could have developed something better but money talks. It about time in pc that we get blown away by something everything just bin interesting and more colorful but not really amazing. i feel we are only on the edge of a brake threw but it take awhile for it to become mainstream.

 

[Guest]

didnt like transmeta ant others try such things? they announced something really great, but when they finally released they technology had caught up and the processors just sucked and nobody got em

 

[dhowie]

this could really be useful, and if they are successful in the server market, im sure they could easily promote a desktop cpu and chipset.

 

[Mysteic]

Sounds like someone plugged the GPU into the wrong socket location. This can work if OS's were massively paralleled systems like image rendering.....but they are not. Without proper multi-threading or on chip system management, this is pointless for consumer use.

 

[CoryInJapan]

Hmm if its less than 400 bucks this may be interesting competition that could spark something interesting out of Intel and AMD.

 

[danimal_the_animal]

Even the CHEAPEST one will blow away my Intel quad core!!!!

I NEED THIS FOR ENCODING VIDEO!!!!!

 

[wintermint]

It's a good thing there's more competition because it usually drive product price down but I don't know if the price range of Tilera's CPUs are going to even affect the price of current CPUs... and then again there's the fact that Tilera's CPU may cost more than an arm and a leg ;x and whether or not today applications can fully utilize 100 cores