Products

Tilera Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company committed to delivering amazing compute performance and extremely low power consumption. Tilera products include a family of full-featured manycore processors that span a range of processing and power requirements, a complete set of standards-based manycore software development tools and a line of high performance boards.

Founded in 2004, Tilera is venture funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, Walden International, Columbia Capital, and VentureTech Alliance. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and operates a research and development facility in Westborough, Massachusetts, USA.

Technology

Processors are the heart and lungs of today's electronics. The more efficient the processor functions the better the end product. Tilera's Tile processors are based on a new mesh architecture that scales to hundreds of general purpose cores on a single chip. The distributed nature of Tilera's revolutionary iMesh™ architecture provides an unprecedented combination of performance, power efficiency and programming flexibility.
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History

1995

• Dr. Anant Agarwal founds Virtual Machine Works (now part of Mentor Graphics). Solved logic emulation by combining 100's of FPGAs using a mesh interconnect.

1997

• Dr. Agarwal founds RAW project with funding from DARPA/NSF funding.

2002

• RAW develops first 16 processor cores on a single piece of silicon. Seamless scaling due to interconnected mesh architecture.

2004

• Tilera founded in stealth mode.

2005

• Tilera adds software developers from Sun, Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Thinking Machines and Curl
• Tilera adds processor architects from AMD, Intel, Broadcom, DEC and Stargen

2007

• Tilera comes out of stealth mode
• TILE64, Tilera's 1st silicon launches
• Multicore Development Environment 1.0 released

2008

• TilePro Family launched featuring 64- and 36-core variations
• GSA Names Tilera Semiconductor Start-Up to Watch

2009

• TILEmpower Development platform released

2010

• NTT makes strategic investment in Tilera
• MIT Technology Review declares Tilera One of the World's Most Innovative Companies
• Tilera partners with Quanta to develop S2Q server
• Wind River's Vx Works adds support for Tile Architecture
• Linux Kernel 2.6.36 incorporates Tilera architecture

2011

• Tilera raises $45 Million including invesments from Artis Capital, West Summit, Cisco and Samsung     
• TILE-Gx 8000 Series for High Performance Networking Applications
• TILE-Gx 3000 Series for Cloud Computing