| torok said: 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. |
I believe around 05-06 ARM was largely still sub-200MHz single core and it was roughly at this time that Intel introduced it's Core architecture, so the multicore processors weren't really that common at the time. Technically the Cell could produce high performance per cost, as the SPE's could eventually be dirt cheap to manufacture, opposed to multi-PPE core processors.
I don't know if it was because of bad dev tools, as it was the processor that required you to know when an SPE was doing nothing.
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