Quad Core is so 2006, in 2010 it is all about the 100-core CPU. Ok so maybe not as this won’t be a consumer processor but it is impressive non the less.

Tilera on Monday 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, Web search and video search, said Anant Agarwal, cofounder and chief technology officer of Tilera, which is based in San Jose, California.

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.

Pretty impressive figures when you consider a consumer CPU can draw between 45w and 135w of power.

In addition to additional cores, the new Tilera chips include many upgrades from their predecessors. The chips are speedier, running at up to 1.5GHz, with support for 64-bit processing. The chips will be made using the 40-nanometer process, which make them smaller and more power-efficient. Earlier chips were made using the 90-nm process.