Intel courting Microsoft/Sony for Larrabe (GPU) deal.

[alephnull]

Squilliam said:

alephnull said:

This all assumes intel can even make a decent compiler for it. Remember the Itanic?

 

They are basing it off the x86 P1 processor. Since its got an X86 lineage I doubt they will be hurting for a compiler.

The Itanic was a completely new architecture, this is x86 based.

 

 

I think you may be confusing the microarchitecture and the ISA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set. The cell uses the POWER ISA, does that mean it can use the same compiler as the xenon which also uses the POWER ISA?