micki
2003-08-12, 09:21:46
naja ich weiß nicht ob das so neu ist, aber bei guru3d wird es nochmals erwähnt und ich darf zitieren
"Collaborating engineers from IBM, Sony, and Toshiba have wrapped up the design for the inner workings of a mysterious new chip called "Cell." The new multimedia processor, touted as a "supercomputer on a chip," is well on its way to completion.
Cell has nearly "taped out"--an industry term meaning that the chip's pen-and-paper design and layout have been completed. Soon the design will be handed over to engineers in manufacturing, who will craft samples. At this rate, commercial production of Cell could begin as soon as the end of 2004.
While the processor's design is still under wraps, the companies say Cell's capabilities will allow it to deliver 1 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 Jim Kahle, director of broadband processor technology and a research Fellow at IBM, confirmed only that the Cell project is on track to meet its 2005 release schedule, which was set forth at its initial announcement. The rest of the chip's schedule is a secret, at least for now, he said. "
wieviel schneller war die ps2 als die damaligen cpus, weiß das noch jemand?
wobei ich ja gehört habe, dass der cell _alles_ rechnen soll, also auch die grafik, den sound... und ein zusammenschluss von vielen ps2 cpus zu einem multithreaded kern (quasi HyperThreading++) sein soll.
speculiert mal schön (mit) ;)
MfG
micki
"Collaborating engineers from IBM, Sony, and Toshiba have wrapped up the design for the inner workings of a mysterious new chip called "Cell." The new multimedia processor, touted as a "supercomputer on a chip," is well on its way to completion.
Cell has nearly "taped out"--an industry term meaning that the chip's pen-and-paper design and layout have been completed. Soon the design will be handed over to engineers in manufacturing, who will craft samples. At this rate, commercial production of Cell could begin as soon as the end of 2004.
While the processor's design is still under wraps, the companies say Cell's capabilities will allow it to deliver 1 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 Jim Kahle, director of broadband processor technology and a research Fellow at IBM, confirmed only that the Cell project is on track to meet its 2005 release schedule, which was set forth at its initial announcement. The rest of the chip's schedule is a secret, at least for now, he said. "
wieviel schneller war die ps2 als die damaligen cpus, weiß das noch jemand?
wobei ich ja gehört habe, dass der cell _alles_ rechnen soll, also auch die grafik, den sound... und ein zusammenschluss von vielen ps2 cpus zu einem multithreaded kern (quasi HyperThreading++) sein soll.
speculiert mal schön (mit) ;)
MfG
micki