<s>
Tilera	B-Architecture
Corporation	I-Architecture
was	O
a	O
fabless	B-Algorithm
semiconductor	I-Algorithm
company	I-Algorithm
focusing	O
on	O
manycore	B-General_Concept
embedded	O
processor	B-General_Concept
design	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
shipped	O
multiple	O
processors	O
,	O
including	O
the	O
TILE64	B-General_Concept
,	O
TILEPro64	B-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
the	O
TILEPro36	O
,	O
TILE-Gx72	O
,	O
TILE-Gx36	O
,	O
TILE-Gx16	O
and	O
TILE-Gx9	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tilera	B-Architecture
's	O
intellectual	O
property	O
was	O
eventually	O
acquired	O
by	O
Mellanox	O
,	O
which	O
now	O
ships	O
products	O
that	O
descend	O
from	O
the	O
original	O
Tilera	B-Architecture
designs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1990	O
,	O
Anant	O
Agarwal	O
led	O
a	O
team	O
of	O
researchers	O
at	O
Massachusetts	O
Institute	O
of	O
Technology	O
to	O
develop	O
scalable	O
multi-processor	O
system	O
built	O
out	O
of	O
large	O
numbers	O
of	O
single	O
chip	O
processors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Alewife	B-Operating_System
machines	I-Operating_System
integrated	O
both	O
shared	O
memory	O
and	O
user-level	O
message	O
passing	O
for	O
inter-node	O
communications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1997	O
,	O
Agarwal	O
proposed	O
a	O
follow-on	O
project	O
using	O
a	O
mesh	O
technology	O
to	O
connect	O
multiple	B-Operating_System
cores	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
follow-on	O
project	O
,	O
named	O
RAW	O
,	O
commenced	O
in	O
1997	O
,	O
and	O
was	O
supported	O
by	O
DARPA/NSF	O
'	O
s	O
funding	O
of	O
tens	O
of	O
millions	O
,	O
resulting	O
in	O
the	O
first	O
16-processor	O
tiles	O
multicore	O
and	O
proving	O
the	O
mesh	O
and	O
compiler	O
technology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tilera	B-Architecture
was	O
founded	O
in	O
October	O
2004	O
,	O
by	O
Agarwal	O
,	O
Devesh	O
Garg	O
,	O
and	O
Vijay	O
K	O
.	O
Aggarwal	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tilera	B-Architecture
launched	O
its	O
first	O
product	O
,	O
the	O
64-core	O
TILE64	B-General_Concept
processor	B-General_Concept
,	O
in	O
August	O
2007	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tilera	B-Architecture
raised	O
more	O
than	O
$100	O
million	O
in	O
venture	O
funding	O
from	O
Bessemer	O
Venture	O
Partners	O
,	O
Walden	O
International	O
,	O
Columbia	O
Capital	O
and	O
VentureTech	O
Alliance	O
,	O
with	O
strategic	O
investments	O
from	O
Broadcom	O
,	O
Quanta	O
Computer	O
and	O
NTT	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
July	O
2014	O
,	O
Tilera	B-Architecture
was	O
acquired	O
by	O
EZchip	O
Semiconductor	O
,	O
a	O
company	O
that	O
develops	O
high-performance	O
multi-core	O
network	O
processors	O
,	O
for	O
$130	O
million	O
in	O
cash	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tilera	B-Architecture
web	O
shows	O
that	O
it	O
belongs	O
to	O
nVidia	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tilera	B-Architecture
's	O
primary	O
product	O
family	O
was	O
the	O
Tile	O
CPU	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
October	O
2009	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
announced	O
a	O
new	O
chip	O
family	O
TILE-Gx	B-General_Concept
based	O
on	O
40nm	O
technology	O
that	O
features	O
up	O
to	O
72	O
cores	O
at	O
1.2GHz	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
TILE-Gx	B-General_Concept
family	O
members	O
include	O
9-	O
,	O
16-	O
,	O
36-core	O
variants	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
36-core	O
general	O
purpose	O
CPU	O
consumes	O
approximately	O
35	O
watts	O
at	O
full	B-Operating_System
load	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
October	O
2010	O
,	O
version	O
2.6.36	O
of	O
the	O
mainline	O
Linux	B-Operating_System
kernel	I-Operating_System
added	O
support	O
for	O
the	O
Tilera	B-Architecture
architecture	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tilera	B-Architecture
also	O
provided	O
software	O
development	O
tools	O
called	O
the	O
Multicore	O
Development	O
Environment	O
(	O
MDE	O
)	O
for	O
Tile	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
line	O
of	O
boards	O
built	O
around	O
the	O
Tile	O
processors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
networking	O
software	O
company	O
6WIND	O
provided	O
high-performance	O
packet	O
processing	O
software	O
for	O
the	O
TilePro64	B-General_Concept
platform	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
25	O
July	O
2011	O
,	O
TilePro	O
processor	B-General_Concept
was	O
found	O
by	O
Facebook	O
to	O
be	O
three	O
times	O
more	O
energy-efficient	O
than	O
Intel	O
's	O
x86	B-Operating_System
,	O
based	O
on	O
Facebook	O
's	O
experiments	O
on	O
servers	O
using	O
TilePro	O
processor	B-General_Concept
and	O
Intel	O
's	O
x86	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2012	O
,	O
MikroTik	O
became	O
the	O
first	O
manufacturer	O
to	O
ship	O
devices	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Tile-GX	B-General_Concept
processors	O
,	O
the	O
product	O
line	O
is	O
called	O
Cloud	O
Core	O
Router	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
June	O
2018	O
,	O
the	O
Linux	B-Operating_System
kernel	I-Operating_System
has	O
dropped	O
support	O
for	O
this	O
architecture	O
.	O
</s>
