Adapteva announced pre-orders for its Parallella Computing Platform.

This pre-orders of the 16-core Parallella platform intended for general public, can be made here!. The announcement follows the delivery of the first Parallella computers ordered through its
Kickstarter campaign.

Connectikpeople may recall that, initial prototypes were shipped to major backers in December of 2012.

Adapteva also announced that, after some final refinements, the remaining 6,300 Parallella’s ordered via Kickstarter will be delivered by the end of the summer, and the standard versions for non-Kickstarter backers will have the Zync-7010 dual-core instead, with the 7020 offered as an upgrade.

The final Parallella design includes:

• Zynq-7020 dual-core ARM A9 CPU
• Epiphany Multicore Accelerator (16 or 64 cores)
• 1GB SDRAM
• MicroSD Card
• USB 2.0 (two)
• Four expansion connectors [option]
• Ethernet 10/100/1000
• HDMI connection
• Ships with free open source Epiphany development tools that include C compiler, multicore debugger, Eclipse IDE, OpenCL SDK/compiler, and run time libraries.
• Dimensions are 3.4” x 2.1”

About Adapteva

Adapteva, Inc. is a privately-held semiconductor technology company based in Lexington, Massachusetts. Adapteva has developed the world’s most energy efficient multicore microprocessor architecture, immediately boosting by an order of magnitude the number of cores that can be integrated on a single chip. Adapteva’s breakthrough architecture will have an immediate impact on a wide range of end-user products, from compact mobile devices to next generation supercomputers. The first semiconductor company to successfully fund a project of Kickstarter, Adapteva’s Parallella platform will bring parallel computing capabilities to a new population of programmers.