I like your blog.

Gor referred here after the comments on Mathstar & Tilera, which I totally agree with.

We too are a multi-core architecture. I like to think we have done it diffently to those guys:
- Focussed on tools before silicon, so it actually is possible to prgam (whodathunk it…?)
- Thought about applications and “where are we going to sell it?” before we started.

That’s my biggest raised eye-brow on Tilera. Anyone who claims “We can do everything” is really saying “We do not know what we are any good at” – which is quick direction post to the graveyard….

Claiming they can L4-L7 acceleration *and* video smells strongly of “ummm… lets name something sexy and hope someone bits”

As I say, I believe (hope!) we have approached it differently.

Certainly the fact we have survived six years and are shipping large volumes of multi-core provessors to credible customers (Intel, Nortel, Samsung, etc) seems to bear that out.

Happy to chat

Rupert