heruamon said:
The shift of AMD and Intel is driven by profits, and not necessarily capability. Don’t get me wrong, as I’m not saying it’s totally impossible to deliver on this capability, but in a lot of respects, this reminds me of M$ attempts to organically put more function into windows…it extremely complicates the solution, and leaves more room for loss of efficiency. AMD is doing so, because they own ATI, and are looking to deliver a cheaper solution to compete and stay alive, but Intel is shifting in this direction to rebuff the comments from Nvidia about the importance of the CPU in the mix. Overall, I don’t think its going to work, and I think at the end of the day, CPU/GPU will remain separate…another example is the Sound Card…you notice the difference when you have a dedicated soundcard, vice using the board sound. BTW, That pdf had an interesting comment that somewhat outlines the expectation some had for Cell and the PS3... “Innovative Chip is best high-performance embedded processor of 2005 We chose the Cell BE as the best high-performance embedded processor of 2005 because of its innovative design and future potential....Even if the Cell BE accumulates no more design wins, the PlayStation 3 could drive sales to nearly 100 million units over the likely five-year lifespan of the console. That would make the Cell BE one of the most successful microprocessors in history.”
As far as I know, no other major system uses the Cell/Broadband Engine processor, although some are “planning” to use it, which means the ps3 had better start selling A LOT of console in the next year. My gut tells me that Intel is going to make a very strong to M$ to get its chips in the next console, which would present some interesting dynamics on cost.
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in reguard's to your fir's statement, it's too late, the Mobile market with cloud based computeing is where pretty much where thing's are going,
and already these HYBRID processor's power/watt is one of the big advantages with low cost and scaleable that it's pretty much a no brainer.
look at NETBOOK'S:
o'l how i love that disruptive technology...:D
it's gathered quite a strong position in market share that window's seven was pretty much needed to be the replacement OS for XP Vist'a requirement's was overkill for those NETBOOK'S but yet CPU/GPU combo chip's are perfect Hybrid's to go into Netbook's. Cell phone's the same.
as for the cell processor in the market:
you can ADD a PCI express Cell processor card to your PC right now
http://www.leadtek.com.tw/eng/tv_tuner/overview.asp?lineid=6&pronameid=447
price:
$308.608 USD
only a 4 SPE Cell Processor with 64 MB of ram..
http://shop.tsukumo.co.jp/goods/4537694079815/
I AM BOLO
100% lover "nothing else matter's" after that...
ps:
Proud psOne/2/3/p owner. I survived Aplcalyps3 and all I got was this lousy Signature.