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Tilera Readies Processors With 100 Cores: Page 2 of 2

Tilera has developed what it calls an iMesh architecture capable of scaling to hundreds of RISC-based cores on a single chip that includes integrated memory controllers and a rich set of I/O. The company offers a multicore development environment for programming in C/C++ for the 64-bit platform. How difficult it will be to port Windows and Linux, the two dominant server operating systems, and business applications to TILE-Gx chips remains to be seen.

Development tools are still evolving for building software that can take full advantage of the parallel processing power of multicore chips. While chip makers are moving quickly to best each other in the number of cores on a chip, software makers are behind in producing products that leverage the full performance capabilities of the processors.

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