Words Of Wisdom on 01 May 2008
| MikeB said: @ TheBigFatJ The PS3 doesn't have "seven processors" No, the PS3 Cell includess 8 active processors. 1 PPE and 7 SPEs. The SPE is a processor which allows for one hardware thread (and any number of software threads), the PPE allows for two hardware threads (and of course software threads). To be more exact, the SPEs are more than just processors. They can compute independently from the rest of the system, that's why they are often referred to as a system on a chip. |
It seems obvious that he was referring to the fact that it SPEs have too many limitations to be considered fullfledged general purpose processors ala the PPE or 360's cores.
