Kalray claims 25 customers for 256-core processor

Peter Clarke, EETimes
9/17/2012 6:57 AM EDT

LONDON – Kalray SA, the well-supported French launching a parallel processing chip and software, has 25 customers and is hopeful of winning more in Germany and Japan, according to CEO Joel Monnier.

Monnier told EE Times that the 28-nm MPPA-256 processor from Kalray (Orsay, France), with its 16 clusters of 16 VLIW processors on-chip, is well-suited to imaging applications such as graphics computation and image recognition and is also being used as a platform for video compression and transcoding.

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