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Ahh Tilera. When MIT's RAW architecture went commercial and became Tilera, it looked like the multicore future was finally coming. They had a lot of nice devtools, like an eclipse-based simulator that let you visualize what was going on in the chip. 64 cores was really appealing, but because they didn't have floating point in the first set of chips, people mainly used them for network processing. Then.. Intel started talking about Larrabee (why use Tilera when you could just run p54c x86), and Nvidia started to become more programmable via Cuda.

Eventually EZChip acquired Tilera (2014), which was then acquired by Mellanox (the hpc network company). Last I saw (2016), Mellanox was using trying to put the tilera stuff in the BlueField products (NVMe over Fabrics target, I think):

https://www.hpcwire.com/2016/06/01/mellanox-spins-ezchip-acq...

Anyone know what happened with BlueField?

Comment · 8 years ago

WhatsApp says they do 100M voice calls a day. Times is a-changin', but people still be a-talkin'.

https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000625/WhatsApp-Calling-100-mill...