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Well, when you have University labs and the freaking Air Force adopting your processor, you know it must be something special.
As innovative and cool as the cell processor is, it's also in some respects a technical failure. A modern multi-core CPU has a number of different cores that act like a normal CPU as far as programming. The cell has specialized CPU cores, which require different techniques for each of them, as each is made for one specific type of operation.
For example, if I wanted to code in a shader, on a normal multicore I just make the code, but for the cell I have to arrange for the different operations to be shuffled to the different cores. It allows for faster cores for a given operating frequency, but much harder to work with, as it requires the programmer to do a lot of shuffling and extra management to take advantage of the architecture.
For example, if I wanted to code in a shader, on a normal multicore I just make the code, but for the cell I have to arrange for the different operations to be shuffled to the different cores. It allows for faster cores for a given operating frequency, but much harder to work with, as it requires the programmer to do a lot of shuffling and extra management to take advantage of the architecture.
Well it seems like the Sony fanboys have nothing to use against 360 fanboys. Which means less fighting.
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Sony fanboys could of course point out that, in the developing Xbox book released, MS was so impressed by Cell that they hired IBM to develop a bastardized version of it. Of course fantarded fuckwits never read anything more than a sentence so that little nugget of hilarity likely remains safe from idiot fanboy wars... for now.
Sony fanboys could of course point out that, in the developing Xbox book released, MS was so impressed by Cell that they hired IBM to develop a bastardized version of it. Of course fantarded fuckwits never read anything more than a sentence so that little nugget of hilarity likely remains safe from idiot fanboy wars... for now.
From the sounds of it, the Cell development is actually ending because SCEI is instead looking to take up the POWER7 processor architecture from IBM - still an 8 core POWER processor, but something in the order of 10 times more powerful, and much more normal/less confusing for developers to code for as the cores are all fully powered. This is mostly just based on speculation. http://www.ps3news.com/forums/playstation-3-news/rumor-sony-chooses-ibm-power7-cpu-playstation-4-2012-a-108795.html
One of the best screams ever.
Though this one still takes the crown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UbZiznRcDE
Though this one still takes the crown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UbZiznRcDE
I like how they just let him fell out of the sky at the end of that vid. In fact, why were they in the air when they started on the ground?
Damn, your American versions of anime suck so much. The voices were awful and that's not even the real music. WTF?
p.s. Cell Processor, we hardly knew you.
p.s. Cell Processor, we hardly knew you.
@BigMoose85:
After all this rage over no backwards compatibility in PS3, and you still ask "does it matter?".
To some, it does.
After all this rage over no backwards compatibility in PS3, and you still ask "does it matter?".
To some, it does.
It seems the article is wrong/misleading. The Cell family is not being killed, only one particular processor is.
http://www.driverheaven.net/news.php?newsid=344
http://www.driverheaven.net/news.php?newsid=344
@braulio09
Dragonball Z is one of the shows I actually preferred dubbed because of the ridiculously high Japanese voices in the original. It just doesn't strike a chord with me as much as the English or other dubs do. Sorta like how I love Kamina's English voice in Gurren Lagann.
I don't know maybe it's just a matter of taste?
Dragonball Z is one of the shows I actually preferred dubbed because of the ridiculously high Japanese voices in the original. It just doesn't strike a chord with me as much as the English or other dubs do. Sorta like how I love Kamina's English voice in Gurren Lagann.
I don't know maybe it's just a matter of taste?
Here's another story that denies this rumor:
http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2009/11/24/ibm-denies-pulling-out-cell-development/
http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2009/11/24/ibm-denies-pulling-out-cell-development/
@ narishma
You are right.
http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2009/11/24/ibm-denies-pulling-out-cell-development/
You are right.
http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2009/11/24/ibm-denies-pulling-out-cell-development/
Did anybody notice in the article that's linked that they say "double down"? Does that mean we're going to start double-downing computer chips? Sweet. Somebody get on that.
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