Tilera, perhaps the last of the first crop of massively multicore startups, gets funding from Broadcom. From the EE Times: Broadcom takes stake in multicore pioneer Tilera

From the Inquirer: March is the month of multi-core CPUs.

The multicore world, like much of the business world, has be quiet lately. But this interesting bit of news came through the HPC Wire. It seems there was no press release by either Intel nor RapidMind: RapidMind Gets Swallowed by Intel

A talk from Stanford professor and early multicore researcher Kunle Olukotun: Keynote: Help is on the way for multicore software

A one page IEEE Spectrum paper discusses the memory wall in supercomputer applications:  Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers

From the HPC Wire:  Will Multicore Kill the x86?

Ken Kennedy, a pioneer in compilers for high performance computing systems, passed away last week.  The announcement from the Rice University web site:  Rice computing pioneer Ken Kennedy dead at 61.

Electronic News reports on Intel’s early efforts to produce a multicore software suite / benchmark set:

Intel Teams with Universities on Multicore Software Suite

Hard Cores: Multicore chips provide power but make app development tough

Re-engineering programs to work on multicore chips is already difficult but will get even harder as the number of processors continues to multiply.

July 10, 2006 (Computerworld) — Putting two or more processor cores on a single silicon chip has been one of the most important milestones in computing in recent years. It allows users to continue to reap the benefits of Moore’s Law while sidestepping the extreme difficulty of manufacturing, powering and cooling single microprocessors beyond 4 GHz. Chip multiprocessors (CMP) also offer the opportunity to significantly boost the performance of applications that are able to share them. …

The Stanford Hot Chips conference has a definite multicore flavor this year. There will be multicore related presentations and tutorials from Sun, Intel, AMD, IBM, Phillips, and several other big guys, as well as new information about products information from smaller companies like Ambric and Connex Technology.