Devan Lippman wrote:
I hope I can get one of these as the CPU for my machine!
np. Cell will be available in early 2006. Linux will support it in late 2005.
And, since Sony and Microsoft are buddy-buddy, we're sure to have Windows support, so no need for x86 anymore.Been a while since I read that explination but I think that its a series of power CPUs arranged similar to a beowulf cluster all on one chip which means it shouldn't be too far off from existing CPUs that linux will run on in the final presentation to the system. Interesting that they have a screenshot of the demo being replayed in windows media player and not the original demo... still I LOVE SMP and this should have the potential to kill current SMP, AMD and INTEL Multicore all in one hit.
Oh. Wait a minute. That's right. Sony and Microsoft hate each other (which is much of the reason that Sony doesn't want to support the "must include VC-1 (Windows Media Audio/Video 9) CODEC" HD-DVD specification and wants to go with the "non-MS CODEC's" Blu-Ray format). Oh well, it's a sweet chip for a PS3 (Sony's saying 1000x--that's times, not percent--the performance of a PS2. (I'm buying a PS3, but not buying any games for it. The only game I'll need is Linux.)
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