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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 14)

Posted on Sunday, Sep 2nd

Here we discuss the current market environment, the competitive landscape with a focus on what current chips are being displaced by the multicore chips. SM: I read in the slides you sent me that you are expecting a TAM (Total Available Market) of $54 billion, is this based on the two markets we discussed –

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 11)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 30th

One of the greatest challenges with Massively Parallel Computing is Programmability. Anant explains Tilera’s approach to software and tools in more detail, and his “gentle slope programming” concept. SM: You created all of the tools from scratch, or did you base them on existing tools? AA: We invented all of this, and it is very

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 10)

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 29th

Here Anant discusses his final area of innovation in Tilera, which is the piece which really supports their go-to-market strategy and allows companies to become early adopters of multicore processors. SM: What is the final innovation? AA: The fifth and final innovation is in software. The third ā€œPā€ is programmability. There, we have done some

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