On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:03:50 -0500 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I repeat, 1 Cell = 5 dual core Opterons. 4 Cells on a PS3 will walk | all over X86-based CPUs, or anything this side of an IBM z-series | mainframe. Unlike "Quantum Computing", The Cell should be affordable | very soon. 4 Cells per PlayStation is going to mean really *BIG* | volume production, and the resultant economies of scale.
Yes, but then any modern graphics card will walk over several opterons too, *if* the task is graphics processing. For anything else, they're pretty tame. Being able to outperform an opteron at one particular task isn't any kind of big deal. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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