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Tilera Announces 100-Core Processor

Who needs a quad core processor when you can get a CPU with 100 cores? According to this article, Tilera’s chips will start shipping next year, with the 100-core chip scheduled to ship in early 2011.

The two-year-old startup's Tile-GX series of chips are targeted at servers and appliances that execute Web-related functions such as indexing, Web search and video search, said Anant Agarwal, cofounder and chief technology officer of Tilera, which is based in San Jose, California. The chips have the attributes of a general-purpose CPU as they can run the Linux OS and other applications commonly used to serve Web data.