Kilocore

Kilocore, from Rapport Inc. and IBM, is a high-performance, low-power multi-core microprocessor that has 1,025 cores. It contains a single PowerPC processing core, and 1,024 eight-bit Processing Elements running at 125 MHz each, which can be dynamically reconfigured, connected by a shared interconnect. It allows high performance parallel processing.

Kilocore
General Info
Launched2006
Designed byRapport, IBM
Common manufacturer(s)
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate125 MHz
Architecture and classification
Instruction setPowerPC
Physical specifications
Cores
  • 256, 1024, 1025

Rapport's first product to market is the KC256, with 256 8-bit processing elements. The KC256 started shipping in 2006.[1] The elements are grouped in 16 "stripes" of 16 processing elements each, with each stripe able to be dedicated to a particular task.

The "thousand core" products are the KC1024 and KC1025, due in 2008. Both have 1024 8-bit processing elements, in a 32 x 32-stripe configuration. The KC1025 has the PowerPC CPU, while the KC1024 has processing elements only.

IBM says that the Kilocore1025 will enable "streaming live- and high-definition video on a low-power, mobile device at 5 to 10 times the speed of existing processors."[2]

References
  1. "Rapport inc". Archived from the original on 20 December 2007.
  2. Tom's hardware: "IBM says Kilocore technology will outrun today's mobile processors" 2006
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