Saturday, February 12, 2005
There's another very good in-depth analysis of the new Cell chip on Real World Technologies - the site was slashdotted for a while, but it seems to have recovered now.
Why is the Cell so interesting? Two main reasons. First, it looks like this may be the next evolution in microprocessor architecture, putting several connected processing units together on a single chip to maximise performance , plus allowing the software to use several of these cell chips in paralle.
Secondly, the next generation Playstation3 is rumoured to have four Cell processors in it.
As I spend much of my time trying to shoehorn a game into the narrow constraints of a Playstation2, this new architecture is a lot more interesting than Sony's PSP, which I find rather underwhelming. It's supposedly got a degree of PS2 compatibility, but they decided to give it just 24Mb of usable ram, rather than the PS2's 32Mb. How much more would it have cost to give it that extra 8Mb?
Tags: ibm sony playstation cell
Why is the Cell so interesting? Two main reasons. First, it looks like this may be the next evolution in microprocessor architecture, putting several connected processing units together on a single chip to maximise performance , plus allowing the software to use several of these cell chips in paralle.
Secondly, the next generation Playstation3 is rumoured to have four Cell processors in it.
As I spend much of my time trying to shoehorn a game into the narrow constraints of a Playstation2, this new architecture is a lot more interesting than Sony's PSP, which I find rather underwhelming. It's supposedly got a degree of PS2 compatibility, but they decided to give it just 24Mb of usable ram, rather than the PS2's 32Mb. How much more would it have cost to give it that extra 8Mb?
Tags: ibm sony playstation cell
