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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. Re:Obviously a TROLL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and this post was modded as insightful?! i preferred the one he called a troll.

  2. Re:x86 compatibility? by MrMickS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please don't feed the trolls.

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