Turns out that chip startups can't get funding. Tilera is trying to turn into a company making fancy NICs. Adapteva had to turn to Kickstarter to raise a measly $900k (fortunately they were aiming for 750k so got to keep it) which has relegated their design to the education market. That market focus was tried by SiCortex and led it to become the flaming pile of dead hope we all really needed to pick up our spirits during the first year of the great recession.
If you're like me, and still fighting to build a high performance computer chip, your best bet might be one of the countries trying to build its own Silicon Valley.
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