Go big or go home. That could be the company motto for Tilera, a Boston-based startup that makes the most gonzo processor you’ve probably ever seen.

Tilera’s new GX-100 chip contains one hundred – count ’em – identical microprocessors, each connected to the others though a massive terabit network. And these processors aren’t just wimpy little cores, either. They’re big 64-bit RISC machines, each with its own L1 and L2 caches, TLB, and 64-bit instruction set. Roughly speaking, each Tilera processor is about equivalent to a good PowerPC, MIPS, or Intel Xeon. In other words, a serious processor. In a big crowd of serious processors.

What would you do with this much horsepower in a single package? If you have to ask, this chip probably isn’t for you. Step aside, sonny, and let the real engineers do their work. But if your business card says Cisco, AT&T, Google, or Nokia, you probably have some good ideas about where this chip might fit. It’s aimed at high-end networking and telecommunications gear, products that have to massage a lot of data in record time.