More details on the 80-core device from Intel are being disclosed at the International Solid State Circuits Conference.  A press release from Intel gives some details:  Intel Research Chip Advances ‘Era Of Tera’.

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.

On the same day as the announdement for their tri-core DSP for W-CDMA (see posting below), Texas Instruments announces a six core DSP device called the TNETV3020.  This device is aimed at video and audio applications.

Texas Instruments has announced the TMS320TCI6488, which contains three TMS320C64x+ cores and is targeted at W-CDMA base stations.  The device operates at 1 GHz and also contains Viterbi and Turbo coprocessors.  The announcement’s subtitle also describes it as a replacement for ASICs and FPGAs.

P. A. Semi has announced its low-power dual PowerPC core device, the PA6T-1682M.  The device boasts less that 15 W power consumption at 2 GHz.