| dahuman said: You know, I think some of you guys are making this too complicated. If you simply look at it from a business perspective, then you'd understand that there is no reason to revisit the Cell and spend as much on R&D since you can already get something that's proven to work rather than having to go back and tweak all the internal workings of the Cell again. You'd need to make quiet a few changes in the Cell to make it relevant for modern GPUs, why bother with that when somebody else already has a solution? It's not like Sony has that much money ya know? |
I tried to make this point earlier. A custom designed Cell processor that developers dislike and will cost Sony lots of money to research versus a cheaper, slightly modified off the shelf CPU/APU + GPU that virtually all developers understand, has numerous tools ready to use and will do a comparable job.
Unless they plan to use a version of the Cell in all their hardware (unlikely considering the original Cell only made it into the PS3), then from a business perspective, the Cell processor is redundant.
