Startup Tilera takes on Intel, ARM

eWeek writes.

Tilera took its latest step on Monday, revealing the general availability of its latest 36- and 16-core chips, which officials said will offer the performance and energy efficiency that are increasingly in demand by networking, multimedia and cloud businesses.

Company officials believe that a server powered by a Tile-Gx36 chip will offer greater performance than a system running on a Xeon chip from Intel, and will use a fifth of the power and an eighth of the space.

According to Tilera, the firm is working with more than 80 customers for its Tile-Gx processors, The Inquirer says.

Tilera also said its co-founder, Devesh Garg, will be returning to the firm as CEO after a four-year sabbatical at a venture capitalist firm.

Garg referred to the firm's 20 or so design wins, saying: “I'm returning to the helm at an excellent time and with strong tailwind.”

“Tilera has outperformed our early expectations given its proprietary instruction set implementation,” Bob Wheeler, a senior analyst with the Linley Group, is quoted by ZDNet as saying.

“The company is riding the open source wave, which has reduced legacy compatibility requirements for various applications. The company can serve multiple markets, so it doesn't have to succeed in cloud computing just to survive.”