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Prospects For the CELL Microprocessor Beyond Games

Posted by Zonk on from the tiny-but-brainy dept.

News for nerds writes "The ISSCC 2005, the "Chip Olympics", is over and David T. Wang at Real World Technologies put a very objective review of the CELL processor (the slides for the briefing are also available), covering all the aspects disclosed at the conference. Besides the much touted 256 GFlops single-precision floating point performance the CELL processor has 25-30 GFlops in double-precision, which is useful enough for scientific computation. Linus seems interested in CELL, too."

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  1. Transmeta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why should Linus be interested in the cell when he has the Transmeta Crusoe?

  2. Re:I bet this Cell processor will kick ass... by ceeam · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean.. If one part of this chip is surrounded by more than three other parts actually doing anything useful then it will die from overheating? : )

  3. Maybe... by gUmbi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since IBM is now involved, should it be called the PS/3 instead of the PS3?