How much would it cost to throw a cell in PS4?

[M.U.G.E.N]

drkohler said:

M.U.G.E.N said:
Actually a user over at Gaf pointed out a patent that sony filed a while back...that allows to atatch Cell functionality to another processor..or something like that lol (pls don't ask..I have no idea what most of it means)

however the end result would be having BC + having additional processing capabilities in the system..would be amazing if they include it

It would also be an engineering nightmare of incredible proportions. Supposedly the PS4 uses unified ram shared by two processors (at some point an APU was in the rumour chain, adding a subprocessor). Imagine adding another processor (complex processor in reality) into the equation. Now you have three processors fighting on a unified bus (it doesn't help that the cell uses a different kind of memory and uses non-Intel code). Such a design would be doable - anything is doable if you pay for it. it would probably add around $200 to the production cost, so no way this is going to happen. Maybe a hardware addon (having a cell with "cell memory" and some glue logic, which could be manufactured for under $50) will appear one day, certainly the engineers have more imprtant thing to do ritght now.

hehe have no clue man. Most of these tech stuff just flies over my head :P but so far it's being discussed over at gaf and they think it's pretty feasible, from a implimentation and a financial pov so who knows :S

I think this is the patent they are talking about

http://www.google.com/patents/US20100312969

Some are speculating the special 'sauce' aka the special units in the system that Digital Foundry was referring to might be this