Tilera Announces New Processors with 64 and 36 Cores

Tilera Corporation, an industry leader in multicore embedded processor designs, has announced today its new TILEPro family of processors, which can deliver a new benchmark record for performance. The new family of processors includes two new models, the TILEPro 64 and the TILEPro 36, which have been designed to deliver an impressive performance level for mid-range applications. The company has also announced that its TILEPro 64 processor can deliver 35X better performance per-watt, compared with Intel's Quad-Core Xeon, and 15X the performance of the DaVinci DM6467 series DSP.

“This second-generation of processors validates Tilera’s unique approach to integrated signal processing and general purpose computing,” said Omid Tahernia, Tilera’s president and chief executive officer. “Customers are looking for a platform that solves their comprehensive compute needs with power efficiency and programmability. Additionally, the TILEPro family delivers on our promise of scalability by giving our customers a software and pin-compatible part for high to mid-range applications.”

According to the company, the second generation of processors has been build on the successful TILE64 processors, which have been selected by “more than 45 customers to replace FPGAs, DSPs, and general-purpose processors.” In addition, Tilera claims that its new family of processors can deliver double the performance in networking and applications such as SNORT and nProbe.

The high-end TILEPro64 has been designed as a multi-core embedded processor that is equipped with 64 full-featured cores, four 800MHz DDR2 memory controllers, and a complete array of high-speed I/O and PCI Express interfaces. According to Tilera, this processor is capable of encoding up to 10 streams of 1080p H.264 video, and execute over 20Gbps of pattern matching in networking applications.

On the other end, the TILEPro 36 provides the same features as the TILEPro 64, but has been scaled down to only 36 cores. It can deliver 5Gbps of Snort intrusion prevention processing and 3 streams of H.264 1080p video encoding.

The new TILEPro 64 processors should be available next month, while the TILEPro 36 are set for a Q4 2008 release.