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IBM's new Cell processor
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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IBM strikes back. "No threat to intel". Well maybe not at the moment.
Even the hard-sell salesmen at IBM are quick to say Cell poses no threat to Intel, the world's leading chipmaker. Intel's processors do a great job on the basic business applications for desktops, laptops and servers. In this mature and mundane market Cell, specially geared to spin out intricate images at very high speeds, offers no real advantage. But the Intel architecture, 25 years old and constrained by having to be compatible with predecessor chips, is ill suited to next-gen imaging. Thus the world must move up to Cell, IBM argues. "We are going into a new era," Kahle declares. "The world is changing."
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0130/076.html
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Clinically Insane
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Cell sounds like a great choice if you're making a Playstation 3. Haven't heard anyone talk about it for serious desktop use.
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Posting Junkie
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Cell would be neat as a coprocessor, but it seems unsuitable for general desktop or server usage.
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They pitched it to Steve to use in Mac's but he didn't seem that impressed. I don't think it is a good desktop chip but will be a killer gaming one.
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"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!"
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Use it in Mac's what? 
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No thanks IBM, we have moved on. 
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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Originally Posted by wdlove
No thanks IBM, we have moved on.
Stepped backwards*
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I like chicken
I like liver
Meow Mix, Meow Mix
Please de-liv-er
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Originally Posted by Lateralus
Stepped backwards*
If 4X faster is backwards i'm all for it.
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Clinically Insane
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Shouldn't stepping backward take you someplace you've been before?
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Chuck
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Originally Posted by moonmonkey
If 4X faster is backwards i'm all for it.
Not to mention 4x cooler and more power efficient. That is one hell of a wicked step back!
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