Peter Clarke, EETimes
3/18/2012 7:54 AM EDT
LONDON – Adapteva Inc. (Lexington, Mass.), a small and lean fabless startup that has developed a series of multicore floating-point processors, claims its latest device, a 28-nm 64-core processor is close to sampling.
The Epiphany architecture is designed to operate as an accelerator for DSP tasks such as speech recognition and image processing. The company has started out in specialized applications such as military, engineering services and financial markets, but is now looking to move into mobile applications.