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2005 Sep 15
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CentOS 4U2 timing. -- Cell != PowerPC 64
...an
oversimplification that simply isn't remotely true. It is a
single Power core with vector units -- nothing like a
multi-core solution.
Only Microsoft's XBox 360 is a 3-way multi-core Power CPU.
The PS/3 is a Power core with vector units attached,
radically different.
> http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cell/Cell3_v2.html
That's a good link, but even he doesn't know what the final
ISA will look like.
I also don't think he realizes that the inprecise nature of
the vector units will limit the potential of the Cell for
many scientific/engineering applications. 19GFLOPS...