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Supino
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Location: Norway
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| pallebrun wrote: |
Supino: It's very logical. He is mainly talking about cell and not the ps3. Cell is ibm's next architecture and it will most likley be used with their next powerpc cpu (Apple will most likley adept it in their new systems also by the way). So the logic is that cell is a great threat against intel and amd (x86), that's why he do the cell vs pc's. |
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Yeah, understand. Though in my mind Apple and PowerPC = Personal Computers = PC's, if you understand. He should just kept it to "Cell V's x86" not "Cell V's PC".
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Cheez-It
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Location: Rochester, NY
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Feb 2005 22:45 Post subject: |
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If it doesn't run windows, it will stay a niche technology and flop (or just shift intel and amd over to a similar chip strategy). If it runs windows, things could get very interesting. I've heard it could have stability / compatability problems because of the radical architecture.
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Supino
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Location: Norway
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Feb 2005 23:15 Post subject: |
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Considering Cell processing technology as a potential deth to Windows-base PCs, isn't a well thought consideration.
How far would AMD be without Intels research or vice versa?
How far would ATI be without NVIDIAs research or vice versa?
the point is: when new technology leaps comes, other soon follow. Is there any example in history to prove me wrong?
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Feb 2005 23:30 Post subject: |
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yes, betamax is a good example. Others did not follow but introduced vhs, wich meant death to the superior but yet not sucessfull beta format.
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Feb 2005 23:36 Post subject: |
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if they made consoles like that what would be the point in buying one??? wouldnt you just use your pc...
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| Posted: Sat, 12th Feb 2005 03:33 Post subject: |
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| Cheez-It wrote: | | If it doesn't run windows, it will stay a niche technology and flop (or just shift intel and amd over to a similar chip strategy). If it runs windows, things could get very interesting. I've heard it could have stability / compatability problems because of the radical architecture. |
This is down to the multiple cells all being able to operate different intructions.
Thats nice, but it does mean theres a huge amount of different errors that can happen all over the place. It may well be this is never stable enough for serious PC use.
Software devs are going to have to write code with multiple instruction sets for each individual cell..its a big worry id say. We have seen the errors that occur in code using only a sinlge instrcution set...can you imagine them running eight separate instructions sets at the same time??
I dread to think. Maybe it will be ok, but somehow I wonder if it might always be a console tech because of this.
In console world less can go wrong and the architecture is fixed...the vairables in PC land mean things could go badly wrong a lot of the time.
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| Posted: Sat, 12th Feb 2005 14:01 Post subject: |
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