Cloud Computing: Freescale, Tilera Unveil New Networking Processors
October 11, 2012
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jeffrey Burt.
The chips are aimed at helping businesses ease the bandwidth crunch on networks caused by such trends as BYOD, mobile computing, video and cloud. Tilera and Freescale Semiconductor are both coming out with new processors targeting corporate networks that are increasingly finding themselves under pressure from the explosive growth of mobile devices, network traffic and cloud computing.
Freescale on Oct. 10 unveiled four additions to its QorIQ T1 and T2 families of 64-bit processors, including the T1040, a quad-core chip with an integrated Gigabit Ethernet switch that the company calls a “router on a chip.”…
At the same time, Tilera, which already sells 16- and 36-core 64-bit processors for data center servers and has plans to go even higher in the core count, is unveiling the Tile-Gx9. The nine-core processor, which can be used for general-purpose computing, multimedia applications and storage devices, is primarily viewed as a chip for networking infrastructures to help in such areas as application delivery and network packet brokering and monitoring…
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