Tilera's Breakthrough 100 Core TILE-Gx100 Processor Nominated for EE Times Ace Award

SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 25, 2011 -Tilera® Corporation, developer of the breakthrough high-performance TILE™ family of manycore processors, today announced that it was named as a finalist for the EE Times Ace Awards in the Most Promising New Technology category. Tilera is nominated for the TILE-Gx100™, the latest offering in its high performing TILE processor family.

"Tilera’s recognition in this category is another affirmation that the world is moving beyond simple multicore and into manycore processing," says Troy Bailey, Vice President Marketing, Tilera Corporation. "We are proud to be finalists for this prestigious award." 

Sampling later this year, the TILE-Gx100 will be the world’s first processor with 100 general purpose cores in a single device. Designed to be fast, and power efficient, the TILE-Gx100 will be the highest performance and the best performance per-watt general purpose processor on the market. The processor is optimized for compute intensive applications such as horizontally scalable server applications, multimedia transcoding, deep packet inspection and network security processing. The TILE-Gx100 will be supported by Tilera’s highly rated tools, as well as third party tools and operating systems.

In 2008, Tilera was a finalist for the EE Times ACE Awards in three categories, and the company has been recognized in previous years by the Global Semiconductor Association, the EDN Innovation Awards, as well as listed in roundups like the MIT Technology Review TR50 and EE Times Silicon60.

The winner for this year’s Ace Awards will be announced at the EE Times Ace Awards ceremony on May 3, 2011, in San Jose, Calif. More information on Tilera and its TILE family of processors is available at www.tilera.com.

About Tilera

Tilera® Corporation is the industry leader in highly scalable general purpose manycore processors for networking, wireless, and multimedia infrastructure applications. Tilera's processors are based on its breakthrough iMesh™ architecture that scales to hundreds of RISC-based cores on a single chip. The distributed nature of Tilera's revolutionary architecture and the standards-based tools, including ANSI C/C++ compiler, GNU tools and Eclipse IDE, deliver an unprecedented combination of performance, power efficiency and programming flexibility. Tilera was founded in October 2004, and now provides two product families: TILE64™ processors and TILEPro™ processors, with its latest TILE-Gx family due out in early 2011. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with locations in Westborough, Mass., Yokohama, Japan, Shanghai, China and Beijing. 

Tilera contact information

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