In 2006:

• January 5: Rapport introduces the KC256, a 256-core microprocessor. This is the first member of the Kilocore family, a massively parallel chip architecture.

• October 9: Cavium announces a new family of connection processors, the OCTEON Plus. The new processors offer twice as fast clock speed, double the cache and more hardware accelerators.

• November 29: MathStar introduced their 2nd generation FPOA, the Arrix family.