Sony chooses IBM POWER 7 CPU for PlayStation 4

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theprof00 said:

blablubb said:

theprof00 said:

Well, the POWER7 is a cell as well.

It's possible that it is still programmed the same way, but additionally it can handle traditional code much better than the current cell can.

But, yeah. I agree with your post.

I can find no evidence, that the power 7 is a cell as well, I think you are wrong.

The Power 7 looks to be a many threaded (at least 32 threads) symetric multiprocessor (just i kind of cores) whereas the cell belongs to the asymetric kind.

To be "a cell as well" the Power7 has to be asymetric and must share a common instructionset (spe related).

look at
Cell Microprocessor on wikipedia
POWER7 is a cell

Cell has power stuff inside(PPE), but its partly something else(SPEs). That something else will be hard to emulate with power stuff only.