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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. Cell, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Nothing to see here, please move along" sums it up pretty nicely.

  2. I prefer Lays by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    got nothin

  3. econ0meter: beyond the bs, sell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    (Sold) (25,882,000) 46
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    (Sold) (1.7%)

    > 8-Feb-05 GATES, WILLIAM H. III
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    >

  4. W00T BFP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ultimately, we *BSD is Dyin6 It is

  5. 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.

  6. Frist ps0t!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    offended some Another troubled can connect to

  7. Re:Deja Vu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You write like a 5 year old.
    Did you actually *read* your submission?

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

    Please don't feed the trolls.

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    You may think me a tired, old, cynic. I'd have to disagree about the tired bit.