Final-Fan said: That was apparently more offensive than I meant it to be. Sorry. |
I'm not sure we're really getting anywhere with this discussion.
All I was trying to say was that the Cell's cores aren't designed to operate the same way as the cores of an Intel or AMD consumer-level CPU. The latter are designed to run general-purpose code while the former is 1 core designed to run general-purpose code (the PPE is actually a modified Power Architecture CPU core) and 7 cores designed to handle SIMD type work. AMD and Intel multi-core chips are designed with one approach in mind, while the Cell is designed with a very different approach in mind. Comparing AMD and Intel "cores" is in many ways comparing apples to apples. Comparing AMD/Intel cores to the Cell's cores is apples to oranges. Very different architecture. Very different design philosophies. So I believe telling non-architecture-aware people that the Cell is an 8-core chip might lead them to believe it would work in a similar fashion and with similar performance to an Intel 8-core chip.
I'm sorry if my belief that non-engineering types might not intuitively draw this distinction. But there you have it. I don't think they will.