Tilera Shipping 'Mega-Multicore' Chip

"Startup Tilera announced Monday that the company has begun shipping what you might call a "mega-multicore" chip, the TILE64, one that can scale to hundreds or thousands of cores. Unfortunately, you won't be using it, however, unless you're involved in the design of network...

Chipmakers aim to unclog data paths

"If you are going to build processors with large numbers of cores, argues Anant Agarwal, you have to figure out how to connect them to each other, too. A decade of research into that problem has resulted in Tilera, Agarwal's company, which has invented a 64-core processor...