A Glimpse Inside the Cell Processor

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday July 14, 2006 @05:33AM from the ahh-scary-close-it-up dept.

XenoPhage writes "Gamasutra has up an article by Jim Turley about the design of the Cell processor, the main processor of the upcoming Playstation 3. It gives a decent overview of the structure of the cell processor itself, including the CBE, PPE, and SPE units." From the article: "Remember your first time? Programming a processor, that is. It must have seemed both exciting and challenging. You ain't seen nothing yet. Even garden-variety microprocessors present plenty of challenges to an experienced programmer or development team. Now imagine programming nine different processors all at once, from a single source-code stream, and making them all cooperate. When it works, it works amazingly well. But making it work is the trick."

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Oh yeah, I remember my first time by llamalicious · 2006-07-14 05:37 · Score: 4, Funny

I was 17 and she was 26 and ... oh shit, wrong first time.
1. Re:Oh yeah, I remember my first time by neonprimetime · 2006-07-14 05:43 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I was 17 and she was 26 and
  
  Per chance, did you have a MySpace account, and your parents didn't know about your little shin-dig?
2. Re:Oh yeah, I remember my first time by Rakshasa+Taisab · 2006-07-14 06:33 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I'm not familiar with any 26 processors, surely you meant 286?
  
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3. Re:Oh yeah, I remember my first time by goodenoughnickname · 2006-07-14 07:18 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  He had sex with a 286-year old?! What was she, a wookie?