Founded in 2004, Plurality Ltd. is a start-up company that has developed the first scalable, easily-programmable, general-purpose manycore processor. The processor is positioned to serve as a general purpose accelerator for a multicore/manycore system-on-a-chip (SoC). Plurality’s integrated hardware and software solutions leapfrog the performance of competitive manycore processors while simplifying programming and management of the processor. The result is a processor that delivers the highest performance at the lowest price per watt per square millimeter of any chip-level shared memory machine currently on the market.

Plurality’s technology is the product of more than 15 years of research and patents received by two of the company’s founders. Plurality offers its technology as Intellectual Property to semiconductor manufacturers and as chips and accelerator boards for OEMs. Typical applications include graphics acceleration, image and video processing, video surveillance, gaming, networking, and communication.

While there are now many multicore and some manycore processors on the market, there still are issues of efficiently accessing memory, easily recompiling code programmed for unicore processors to multicore/manycore processors, and assuring nearly linear speedup. Plurality offers the most optimal solutions for addressing these issues.