Tilera today announced new general-purpose CPUs, including a 100-core chip, as it tries to make its way into the server market dominated by Intel and AMD. The two-year-old startup's Tile-GX series of chips are targeted at servers and appliances that execute Web-related functions such as indexing. The chips have the attributes of a general-purpose CPU as they can run the Linux OS and other applications commonly used to serve Web data. The Gx100 100-core chip will draw close to 55 watts of power at maximum performance, Agarwal said. The 16-core chip will draw as little as 5 watts of power.