Cell based server revealed.

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  • Reply 41 of 43
    wwworkwwwork Posts: 140member
    I think the real promice of the cell processor is that it shows that someone can come to IBM with a design or an idea for a type of design and they will crank it out rather quickly. It also shows that IBM can engineer a lot of different kinds of processors. So I think Apple might be in a position where they can get something pretty close to what they want from IBM and I don't think it's a cell setup just yet.
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  • Reply 42 of 43
    mi0immi0im Posts: 8member
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    Originally posted by Programmer

    the SPE's single precision has 32-bits of precision just like anybody else's single precision.



    No. The mantissa is only 23-bits. (Indeed it is normalized expression and has 24-bit precision.)
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  • Reply 43 of 43
    programmerprogrammer Posts: 3,503member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by mi0im

    No. The mantissa is only 23-bits. (Indeed it is normalized expression and has 24-bit precision.)



    Okay, fine, be that way. It is nonetheless just the same as everybody else's single precision.
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