Interesting news and would be even more interesting to see how Microsoft spins against CELL capability.
For #2, sticking 48 decoder would be inefficient because of bus bottleneck. Simple rule of thumb, more closer the units are, more efficient they are in shuttling data back and forth. The internal bus runs at Chip speed, but the external bus runs right now at about 800MHZ. This is the reason Intel tries to make bigger and bigger Cache built into the chip. Accessing data in the Hard disk is always slower than accessing it in the Cache. Also mutli core is the future, AMD & Intel have announced dual core chip. Wait for IBM & SUN to announce their multi core chip.
For #3 there is only one CELL, low end and high end difference would be in Frequency ie 3GHZ or 4GHZ. Right now CELL has the maximum theoretical compute power for multimedia data crunching.
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Pari @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM
Interesting news and would be even more interesting to see how Microsoft spins against CELL capability.
For #2, sticking 48 decoder would be inefficient because of bus bottleneck. Simple rule of thumb, more closer the units are, more efficient they are in shuttling data back and forth. The internal bus runs at Chip speed, but the external bus runs right now at about 800MHZ. This is the reason Intel tries to make bigger and bigger Cache built into the chip. Accessing data in the Hard disk is always slower than accessing it in the Cache. Also mutli core is the future, AMD & Intel have announced dual core chip. Wait for IBM & SUN to announce their multi core chip.
For #3 there is only one CELL, low end and high end difference would be in Frequency ie 3GHZ or 4GHZ. Right now CELL has the maximum theoretical compute power for multimedia data crunching.
I would like to the video of the demo.