Tilera(R) Corporation, the leader in manycore general purpose microprocessors, today announced availability of the TILE-Gx9™, a 64-bit 9-core processor targeted at applications in networking, multimedia, storage and general purpose computing. Extending all the product advancements of the TILE-Gx™ processor family, the TILE-Gx9 delivers industry-leading compute-per-watt, enabling low-power environmentally friendly designs. In addition to the nine processor cores, the device integrates a high-performance memory controller, Ethernet and PCI Express interfaces, and available crypto and compression engines to reduce both system cost and circuit board area.
“We are seeing enormous market traction and design win activity with our 16 and 36-core TILE-Gx processors, unseating embedded processors and other difficult-to-program devices,” said Devesh Garg, president and CEO at Tilera. “Customers need unprecedented levels of performance and performance-per-watt to stay competitive and they simultaneously want to reuse their software and hardware investments across their product portfolio. The TILE-Gx9 brings all of Tilera’s advantages of performance, power-efficiency and thousands of open source libraries to our customers in an exceptional power envelope of only 10 watts.”
There is even a quote from Mikrotik’s John Tulley
We chose the TILE-Gx family because it allowed us to seamlessly leverage our software across a range of our product offerings," said John Tully, CEO of MikroTik. "The TILE-Gx processor portfolio brings a great mix of compute, I/O, and acceleration while allowing us to showcase our unique router OS software advantages. MikroTik has been very pleased with the ease of use, accelerated time-to-market and overall scale that Tilera processors and their industry leading development software and development environment continues to offer us
It would be nice to see all of Mikrotik’s rack mounted routers running Tilera processors 