I remember the days when I could read stories about computing hardware and not feel like I have just put my brain through a blender… but then I moved away from the hardware side of things and it appears that this isn’t like riding a bike.
But here is what I got in a nutshell, while the Cell processor has proven itself time and time again to be an exceptionally good chip that can power it’s way through a bazillion calculations a second it isn’t what IBM is going to use to move forward and conquer the earth.
Instead they are teaming up with AMD and investing in OpenCL (AMD’s GPU idea). They are then going to create APU’s and GPGU’s coupled with CPU’s and all this together is going to take out Nvidia.. yeah I don’t know when they entered this conversation either.
But the important parts are this… IBM aren’t suddenly going to stop making the PS3’s Cell processor. The Cell processor is still a kick ass chip and the PS4 will more than likely not run on a Cell.
It will run on whatever I said up there.
You can read all the technical details through the link below.
Source: TheInquirer
Last Updated: November 30, 2009
bboy
November 30, 2009 at 10:47
How many PUs could a PU use if a PU could P Us?
WitWolfyZA
November 30, 2009 at 10:58
I dunno how true this is,but my friend owns a PS3 and he told me he got an Email from Sony telling him to upgrade his PS3 to a “Dual Cell chip” and this upgrade cost more or less R1600
Have any of you heard something like this as well?
LazySAGamer
November 30, 2009 at 11:02
er that would be an ugly lie…. but if he wouldn’t mind sending me the details I would love to get confirmation of that.
Bonk
November 30, 2009 at 12:09
Oh lazy, but Nvidia is chairing OpenCL
Nick de Bruyne
November 30, 2009 at 12:21
Confused.
Bonk
November 30, 2009 at 12:35
Yes, I am. Is this like an April fools joke or what, because what lazy wrote don’t make a whole lot of sense to me.
WitWolfyZA
November 30, 2009 at 13:36
Ill do so
Nick de Bruyne
November 30, 2009 at 13:23
I hear that the new cell can process up to three cheeses simultaneously
easy
November 30, 2009 at 13:57
my ex-girlfriend could do the same :tongue:
dirty little tramp :biggrin: