Tilera Partners with Octera Solutions to Capitalize on the Increased Demand for Tilera Processors in the Market

SAN JOSE, Calif. - August 4, 2010 -Tilera® Corporation, the leader in many-core general purpose microprocessors, today announceda distribution partnership with Octera Solutions for North America. Octera Solutionsis a focused demand creation driven distributor with a proven track record of design excellence, technical support and strong customer relationships for complex semiconductor products.

“Tilera is very excited to bring on Octera as our distribution partner for North America as a way to expand and develop a broad customer base. Octera is a highly competent partner that will focus on demand creation and customer support,” says Ken Way, vice president of Worldwide Sales at Tilera.  “Octera will play a key role in accelerating Tilera’s momentum in our target markets; cloud computing, wireless, multimediaand networking.”

“Tilera is an ideal addition to the Octera Solutions linecard,” commented John Burton, President of Octera Solutions. “Our focus is on high end digital technology and our expertise in Linux and design services combined with Tilera plays perfectly to our target markets of networking, video and computing technology. We think Tilera has and will continue to redefine the performance and power consumption metrics available from a processor in all these areas.”

Tilera continues to expand its sales and partnerships reach worldwide to satisfy the increasing demands for its two generations of processors currently shipping and its TILE-Gx™family, which will begin sampling later this year and will range from 16-100 cores.

About Octera
Octera Solutions Inc. is a franchised distributor for semiconductor supplier partners with field sales and field technical staff who work very closely with a central design services team to provide the best technical support available.  Octera Solutions ships from ISO9000 qualified warehouse and provides sales and technical support to customers across North America.

About Tilera
Tilera® Corporation is the industry leader in general purpose multicore and many-core processors for cloud computing and communications applications. Tilera's processors are based on its breakthrough distributed iMesh™ architecture, which enables it to scale to hundreds of general purpose, low power, cores and continue to scale with new process technology.  With this revolutionary architecture, a standard Linux environment, and standard GNU tools, Tilera delivers unprecedented general purpose compute capacity at a fraction of the power consumption of legacy processors. Tilera has three product families: the TILE64™, the TILEPro™ and its latest: the TILE-Gx™. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with locations in Westborough, Mass., Yokohama, Japan, Beijing, and Shanghai, China.

Tilera contact information
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Tara Sims
415 310 5779
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