Plurality Joins the Multicore Association as an Executive Board Member

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- MULTICORE EXPO -- The
Multicore Association(TM), a global nonprofit organization focused on
developing standards that help speed time to market for products that involve
multicore implementations, today announced that Plurality Ltd. is the newest
member of its executive board.
"With its unique 'many-core' processor containing 256 cores, Plurality
makes a notable addition to our membership," said Markus Levy, Multicore
Association president. "Plurality's experience in this industry will help
provide this consortium with a valuable perspective on the wide range of
multicore implementations that are being deployed in the industry."
"Plurality's 256-core Hypercore processor chip, which achieves
breakthrough performance per price and per watt while supporting a simple
programming model, is uniquely positioned to serve as a 'general purpose
accelerator,'" said Igor Pe'er, acting CEO of Plurality. "We are pleased to
add this achievement to the pool of solutions offered by the members of the
Multicore Association and to contribute to the common goal of creating
standardized multicore solutions."
The Multicore Association is structured to provide three levels of
membership, with executive board, working group, and university members. The
executive board helps determine the overall direction of the organization.
Working group members are eligible to participate in any of the working
groups. University members may participate in any of the Multicore
Association's ongoing development work, for which current projects include
multicore virtual machine standardization, multicore resource management, and
debug functionality to support the recently released Multicore Communication
API (MCAPI).
About Plurality
Plurality Ltd. is the developer of the Hypercore scalable, easily
programmable, general-purpose, many-core processor. Hypercore can serve as a
"general purpose accelerator," exploiting both fine- and coarse-grain
parallelism present in many modern algorithms and applications to provide
unparalleled cost-performance and power-performance ratios while retaining the
complete flexibility of a software solution, including remote code updates.
Plurality works with its customers to determine the most cost-effective way of
incorporating Hypercore into their products. Further information is available
at http://www.plurality.com.
About The Multicore Association
The Multicore Association provides a neutral forum for vendors who are
interested in, working with, and/or proliferating multicore-related products,
including processors, infrastructure, devices, software, and applications.
Currently, the organization is set up with three working groups: Multicore
Communications API (MCAPI), Hypervisors, and Multicore Resource Management.
Members include ARC International, Codeplay, Enea, eSOL, Freescale
Semiconductor, Imperas, Intel, Mentor Graphics, MIPS Technologies, National
Instruments, NEC Electronics America, Nokia Siemens Networks, Plurality,
PolyCore Software, QNX, Texas Instruments, Tilera, the University of York, and
Wind River. Further information is available at
http://www.multicore-association.org.
SOURCE The Multicore Association

Markus Levy of The Multicore Association, +1-530-672-9113,
markus@multicore-association.org; or Bob Decker of Wall Street Communications,
+1-415-409-0233, bob.decker@wallstcom.com, for The Multicore Association