kars on 03 June 2007
| DarkD said: Really http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20060713074825.html That is a press release from IBM supporting what I said. Although you were right about it being the 9th processor that was special. |
Nope, you are getting it backwards: The Cell has ONE normal core (the PPE) and 8, the SPE 7, SPEs that can best be described as Coprocessors and one of these coprocessors can be switched into a locked state to handle secret keys. To get an overview of it you could simply read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_microprocessor
