<Li> TILE - Gx, a 72 - core 64 - bit processor </Li> <Li> XMOS Software Defined Silicon quad - core XS1 - G4 </Li> <Ul> <Li> OpenSPARC </Li> </Ul> <Ul> <Li> MIT, 16 - core RAW processor </Li> <Li> University of California, Davis, Asynchronous array of simple processors (AsAP) <Ul> <Li> 36 - core 610 MHz AsAP </Li> <Li> 167 - core 1.2 GHz AsAP2 </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> University of Washington, Wavescalar processor </Li> <Li> University of Texas, Austin, TRIPS processor </Li> <Li> Linköping University, Sweden, ePUMA processor </Li> <Li> UC Davis, KiloCore, a 1000 core 1.78 GHz processor on a 32 nm IBM process </Li> </Ul>

When was the first quad core processor released