" While the processor's design is still under wraps, the companies say Cell's capabilities will allow it to deliver one trillion calculations per second (teraflop) or more of floating-point calculations. It will have the ability to do north of 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second, roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz."
"IBM is expected to begin manufacturing Cell as soon as 2004 or possibly early 2005. But as with many other details about the chip, Kahle will confirm only that the Cell project is on track to meet it's a 2005 introduction, which was set forth at its initial announcement."
Cell chips will be engineered to work on a variety of OS.
A hundred times the fpu performance of an Intel at 2.5 GIG?
:eek:
Er...where's Apple in all this..?
Hmmm.
Why not just give them 'X' to work on it..? 'X' to work on IBM's server version of Cell?
Yer PS 3 then pushes 'X' into a huge marketshare that...I don't see Apple reaching via conventional means and an enormous chunk of the gaming market on their operating system at a glance...
Terraflop...oh...my...worrrrrrd.
:eek:
Sounds like a true 'AIM' alliance. One Apple should join. Perhaps they can cough up some of that 4 billion to join the party?
It would be worth paying said alliance to make 'X' the operating system on Cell.
Cause...I'm not sure Apple are going to get 100 times the fpu of a Pentium 4 at 2.5 gig in two years time by the current 'non' road map.
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" While the processor's design is still under wraps, the companies say Cell's capabilities will allow it to deliver one trillion calculations per second (teraflop) or more of floating-point calculations. It will have the ability to do north of 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second, roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz."
"IBM is expected to begin manufacturing Cell as soon as 2004 or possibly early 2005. But as with many other details about the chip, Kahle will confirm only that the Cell project is on track to meet it's a 2005 introduction, which was set forth at its initial announcement."
This just in:
<a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-948493.html"; target="_blank">http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-948493.html</a>;
:eek:
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Cell chips will be engineered to work on a variety of OS.
A hundred times the fpu performance of an Intel at 2.5 GIG?
:eek:
Er...where's Apple in all this..?
Hmmm.
Why not just give them 'X' to work on it..? 'X' to work on IBM's server version of Cell?
Yer PS 3 then pushes 'X' into a huge marketshare that...I don't see Apple reaching via conventional means and an enormous chunk of the gaming market on their operating system at a glance...
Terraflop...oh...my...worrrrrrd.
:eek:
Sounds like a true 'AIM' alliance. One Apple should join. Perhaps they can cough up some of that 4 billion to join the party?
It would be worth paying said alliance to make 'X' the operating system on Cell.
Cause...I'm not sure Apple are going to get 100 times the fpu of a Pentium 4 at 2.5 gig in two years time by the current 'non' road map.
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