Oh also it's also worth noting Intel was once developing a CPU similar to the CELL in many ways codenamed Larrabee. Which was meant to have 32+ stripped down x86 CPU cores (with a dedicated texture unit in each core, 4 way multithreading with in order execution, and a very wide SIMD unit for floating point math) back in 2010, in 2009 a prototype offered 1 TFLOP at 1GHz well over 4x that of the CELL (graphics performance would likely have also been much better than the CELL thanks to the dedicated hardware as well) after sinking $4-4.5 billion into the project they decided to roll the tech into their traditional CPUs and intergrated GPU projects and skrap the project as performance was not competitive with modern GPUs.
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