Keynote 3 (Banquet Talk) Digital space

The multicore trend is universal. Spanning embedded processors, desktop CPUs and DSPs, supercomputers and cloud computing, multicore processors offer a game-changing opportunity for improvements in power efficiency and processing performance. More than anything else, multicores have put on-chip interconnect front and center in terms of design attention, since it has a first order impact on multicore performance, power efficiency, and even ease of programming. This talk will provide the inside scoop on our experiences with onchip interconnect in university research with the 16-core Raw multicore processor, in a commercial environment with Tilera´s 64-core Tile processor, and conclude with some startling predictions for future 1000 core processors.