Introducing the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Processor

[JohnnyWalker]

At the International Solid State Circuits Conference today, IBM, Sony, and Toshiba took the wraps off their long-awaited Cell processor. Back in 2001, the three companies decided to form an alliance to create the processor that would power the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3. Last year, they let it be known that the Cell would have other uses, such as powering new workstations.

"The Cell processor consists of a general-purpose POWERPC processor core connected to eight special-purpose DSP cores. These DSP cores, which IBM calls "synergistic processing elements" (SPE), but I'm going to call "SIMD processing elements" (SPE) because "synergy" is a dumb word, are really the heart of the entire Cell concept"

Και τώρα οι δυνατότητες της CPU!!!!

The Cell looks impressive: nine processor cores with clock speeds starting at 4GHz. It can process 256 billion calculations per second, and has 234 million transistors fabbed on a 90nm process. Plans call for a switch to a 65nm process by year end. Test production of the processors will begin later in the year, and the final versions will appear not only in the PS3 early next year, but also in high-end graphics and animation workstations

O Cray στο σπίτι σας :shock: :!: :!: :!: :!:

 

[JohnnyWalker]

Δυστηχώς δεν το είδα και άνοιξα άλλο topic σε αυτή την κατηγορία για το ίδιο θέμα

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