. 8 X 8 grid of identical, general purpose processor cores (tiles)
. 3-way VLIW pipeline for instruction level parallelism
. 27 Tbps of on-chip mesh interconnect enables linear application scaling
. Up to 50 Gbps of I/O bandwidth
. 600MHz - 1GHz operating frequency
. 170 - 300mW per core
. Idle Tiles can be put into low-power sleep mode
. Power efficient inter tile communications
. Four DDR2 memory controllers with optional ECC

. Two 10GbE XAUI configurable MAC or PHY interfaces
. Two 4-lane 10Gbps PCI-e MAC or PHY interfaces
. Two GbE MAC interfaces
. Flexible I/O interface
. ANSI standard C compiler
. Advanced profiling and debugging designed for multicore programming
. Supports SMP Linux with 2.6 kernel
. iLib API's for efficient inter-tile communication

. 10 Gbps Snort(R) processing
. 20+ Gbps iptables (firewall)
. 20+ Gbps nProbe
. 16 X 16 SAD at 540 MBlocks/s
. H.264 HD video encode for two streams of 720p @ 30 Fps

. Highest performance per watt
. Simple thermal management & power supply design
. Lower operating cost
. Reduces BOM cost - standard interfaces included on-chip
. Dramatically reduced board real estate
. Direct interface to leading L2-L3 switch vendors
. Run off-the-shelf C programs
. Reduce debug and optimization time
. Faster time to production code
. Standard multicore communication mechanisms

Certainly not for your Windows operating systems.

It is a RISC CPU. Short instructions, extreme parallelism. This is what CPU suppose to do.
Well, that's one thing, the second best thing about this CPU is the built-in I/O, RAM and LAN controllers.
Save our budget on blood-sucking chipsets designs.

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wat i mean here,

while Intel and AMD(people) still in research to get thier target(moon) (for example, Intel looking a way to get 80 Cores),
some unknow processor producer(alien), Tilera already able can achieve their target and will take control the market.(earth).
if Intel and AMD didn't look for solution, they will be terminate in the market.

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Added on August 21, 2007, 1:07 pm
so do you know that the concept for build a processor is same??? either Intel or AMD or Sun Microsystem. concept is the same, they just add some features to archive the main popurse of the processor.
so, if Intel get the concept from Tilera, then may be Intel can produce more powerful processor..
thats all for my story

This company is founded in Oct 2004, as stated in their website. And TILE64 seems to be their first product launch.

Where did they get the money and expertise to suddenly come out with this processor in just 3 years where else Intel/AMD are few decades old?
quoted from http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/bbs?post_id=8241945
Have you seen this board made from TILE64? It looks like a network card using a TILE64 proc ?

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