Kynes on 22 November 2009
What I'm suggesting is to improve the PPU/SPU ratio, and make PPU out of order, not to improve the SPU functionality. Keep them very specialized, having a low power and transistor budget, to help the PPUs in a GPGPU way. Something similar to what AMD is going to do with Llano, 4 x86 cores, ¿480? stream engines in a die. If you want an heterogeneous architecture, at least it has to be designed to the workload a Joe Sixpack's PC will do.
