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BlkPaladin on 01 March 2012
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theprof00 said:
BlkPaladin said:

Well this isn't a surprise since the Cell project was canned by IBM about three years ago. So if Sony wanted another Cell processor they would have to do it themselves. Since they can not afford to do that. (They had to go to IBM and nVidia to get the PS3's chip done) The Cell processor is now a failed project though the ideas that made the Cell are being incorporated into new chip.

http://www.hardmac.com/news/2009/11/24/ibm-to-drop-the-cell

That's more spin than truth.

The project was completed. It was done in conjunction with Toshiba and Sony. Sony had no plans to improve the chip and neither did Toshiba. The result is IBM focusing on it's core instead of making products that were funded by other companies.

And yes, the tech from the cell is going into new processors. So to say the cell is canned is really a misnomer. The cell is evolving, if you will, or merging with something else. That's what cells do.

 IBM stated that the Cell is a dead end. And there will be no new iteration of it.

http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/11/end-of-the-line-for-ibms-cell.ars

 

Reading this what they learned in the cell projecect went into making AMD's APUs. So instead of "evoling" it was used to strenghen the multi-core CPU's that were already making their appearence before the first cell was released.