| CGI-Quality said: With Sony just patenting the Cell with the Emotion Engine, something here is fishy. Why patent your last gen technology (PS2 CPU) to throw it away next gen (PS4)? There's definitely a piece missing here, which is why I suggest we wait for an official confirmation from the higher-ups. |
To tell the truth, Sony's patent is about about having blocks of recompiled code refrenced by your interpreted one (or at least that's hpw I got it) and could very well apply to emulating the EE on Power 7, or even emulating SPE code on Power 7 cores (8 cores with 4x SMT and all those floating point units should be able to cope with emulating the PS3 Cell, though I haven't found details on memory access yet)...
The example implementation for emulating EE on a Cell might well have been a placeholder while they were still working with IBM on their next architecture.
