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Massively parallel processors: Who's still alive?

By Kenton Williston, 01.21.09 0
Here's a survey of massively parallel processor companies. Find out who's dead and who's still in business.Here's a survey of massively parallel processor companies courtesy of Forward Concepts. For a analysis of the players, check out BDTI's article Why massively parallel chip vendors failed.

COMPANY

PRODUCT

COMMENTS

Ambric

AM2000 family-344 Processors

Was shipping video chips, but backing dried up

Aspex Semiconductor (U.K.)

Linedancer 4,096 Processors

Silicon killed; now marketing IP for video

BrightScale

BA 1024 Video Processor

Was Connex Technology; now marketing IP

ClearSpeed Technologies

Multithread 96-element array processor

Now selling as subsystems

Coherent Logix, Inc.

hx2100 HyperX-based DSP

Still in development

CPU Technology, Inc.

Acalis7 Field-Programmable MultiCores

Actively marketing

Element CXI

Reconfigurable Array

Showing silicon-actively marketing

Elixent/Panasonic (U.K.)

D-Fabrix Array

Now Captive; status unknown

IMEC (Belgium)

ADRES: Coarse Grain Array for VLIW's

Licensable IP, actively marketing

Intellasys

Scalable Embedded Array 24 processors

Actively marketing

IP Flex (Japan)

DAP/DNA-955 16-bit processors

Now shipping for video

MathStar

Field Programmable Object Array

Out of business

Motorola Labs

Reconfig. Streaming Vector Processor

Development ceased

NEC (Japan)

Dynamically Reconfigurable Logic Engine

Development appears to have ceased

PACT XPP Technologies

XPP 3C-64 processors

Actively marketing IP

PicoChip Designs (U.K.)

picoArray Massively Parallel Array

Shipping in volume

Plurality (Israel)

Hypercore Processor: 16-256 cores

In Development

Rapport Inc.

Kilocore KC-256 with 256 processors

Appears to have folded

Recore (Netherlands)

Montium Tile Processors

Licensable IP-status unknown

Silicon Hive (Netherlands)

Moustique Block Accelerators

Licensable IP-actively marketing

Stream Processors Inc.

Storm-1 Family-80 32-bit ALUs

Surveillance Video-actively marketing

Tabula

Unannounced

In Stealth Mode

Tilera

TilePro36 & 64

1st generation now shipping