torok on 03 January 2018
| bdbdbd said: I think each of the three had their own interests, as to my knowledge, Sony was planning on putting Cell on every home electronics device it was to manufacture. Linux kernel was ported on Cell, so someone was clearly planning it on HPC and servers and such. |
IBM was clearly intending it for HPC. But it failed badly due to lack of performance against GPUs and terribly bad dev tools. Sony had this weird plan about home electronics, that I really never understood. If you want to pack a punch on electronics, just use an ARM SoC. In their defense, Cell was developed before the smartphone arms race made ARM SoCs improve dramatically fast.
