Manage updates with the Download App
Tilera's balancing act: 100 cores vs. market realities
While we're all familiar with the steady increase in the number of cores in mainstream PC and server processors, the corresponding progress in the embedded-processor market has been anything but steady.
With mainstream PC microprocessors standardizing on four-core designs such as Intel's Core i7 and leading-edge server chips ranging from 8 to 16 cores, single-core chips are no longer competitive. For embedded systems, however, one core may still be the right answer; if more are needed, the choices range up into the hundreds.
The latest announcement in the many-core embedded processor market is Tilera's Tile-Gx family, which … Read more
