Tilera Targets Intel, ARM With 36-core Server Chip

Tilera on Monday announced availability of its new 36-core processor, which the company says can trump traditional x86 server chips from Intel in  performance-per-watt.                                                                  
                                                                                          
The Tile-GX36 is designed for use in servers that handle large volumes of Internet  transactions, the company said. The processor helps reduce power and cooling costs in data centers while swiftly executing social media, search and multimedia streaming transactions.                                                                          
                                                                                          
The Tile-GX36 chip will initially ship at clock speeds of 1.2GHz, and draws up to 24 watts of power. The chip can run more operations per clock cycle while drawing less power than some power-hungry Intel Xeon server chips, said Bob Doud, director of marketing.                                                                             
                                                                                          
The Tilera chip has attributes of a general-purpose CPU as it can run the Linux OS and applications commonly used to serve web data. The fast throughput chip has fewer parallelized cores but is faster than Tilera's 64-core predecessor chip, which  shipped a few years ago. A 2U server with eight 36-core chips will draw roughly 400 watts of power, the same as eight Tilera 64-core chips in the box.

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