A Silicon Valley start-up today is set to discuss plans to pack more than 1,000 simple electronic processors on a chip, an extreme example of a major shift in semiconductor design.
Rapport Inc., a closely held company in Redwood City, Calif., is already marketing a chip that has 256 processors with low-power consumption, targeting applications that include managing video on cellphones. A 1,024-processor successor is expected in mid-2007. Rapport's chips also use a processor based on an International Business Machines Corp. design known as Power.
The announcement comes as companies such as Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices have ...
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