On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 01:46:01PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Paul G. Allen wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
The POWER architecture is probably the best remaining architecture for
this kind of thing.
As in Power Rangers? ;)
HENSHIN! :)
For those who don't know, POWER is the codename for the IBM architecture
which includes PowerPC at the low end to significantly beefier chips at the
high end.
The Cell processor in the PS3 is power based. It's not a bad system, but
it is slower than an equivalent clocked modern x86 system. I suspect that
has to do more with cache sizes, and the lack of memory on the PS3. They
probably also keep the design smaller since they are expecting most
applications to be using the other cells for a lot of the grunt work.
David
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