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Cell Architecture Explained
IdiotOnMyLeft writes "OSNews features an article written by Nicholas Blachford about the new processor developed by IBM and Sony for their Playstation 3 console. The article goes deep inside the Cell architecture and describes why it is a revolutionary step forwards in technology and until now, the most serious threat to x86. '5 dual core Opterons directly connected via HyperTransport should be able to achieve a similar level of performance in stream processing - as a single Cell. The PlayStation 3 is expected to have have 4 Cells.'"
Glorifying IBM is just a roundabout way of drooling on about Apple without looking like an Apple fanboi.
Imagine a beowulf-cluster of fat nigger-cunts sitting on you pale white face and making the first male bukakke-actor.
Awww!
The liddle sega fanboy is still crying from his piece of shit system taking a dirtnap!
It's all cuz of Sony hype!
Waaaa!!!!
Lets see..
Motorolla 68xxx,
Transmetta,
Alpha,
Sun CPU's
Power PC CPU's (All flavors and even 64-bit versions)
Itanium (which is x86 compatible and made from Intel themselves)
IBM's Cell processor
Is just another CPU added that has failed to take over the Market that AMD and Intel now enjoy. X86 is now dual/quad core with 64-bit instructions and that is the way the market is going.
All of those on that list have failed to take the market and even Itanium which is a 64-bit next generation CPU which is compatible (although slower) x86 and yet it has failed to take the market. If that can't do it, I really am trying to grasp at how Cell is going to change any of this.
All of those processors weres supposed to change the world and yet where are they now? I rest my case.