ZnU wrote: > In article <znu-80963C.03100926052005@individual.net>, > ZnU <znu@fake.invalid> wrote: > > >>In article <119am9had2u3863@corp.supernews.com>, >> "Judd" <IhateSpam@stopspam.com> wrote: >> >> >>>"ZnU" <znu@fake.invalid> wrote in message >>>news:znu-37ABB5.02125025052005@individual.net... >>> >>>>In article <1198049p3ibdh96@corp.supernews.com>, >>>> "Judd" <IhateSpam@stopspam.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Notwithstanding, the dumbest post I've ever read. Look at what >>>>>the console market has done is somehow going to tell us what the >>>>>PC market is going to do? You, sir, are an imbecile! If they >>>>>make the move, they could gain CONSIDERABLE marketshare. I don't >>>>>see Windows moving over to the Cell processor nor one of their >>>>>hybrid PPC processors. They tried that in the past and failed >>>>>miserably. The console game market has never embraced PC >>>>>processors until MS used PIII's for the X-Box. It isn't like >>>>>suddenly the console game market switched to non Intel chips. >>>> >>>>Huh? Nobody is talking about Windows moving to PPC -- the need to >>>>support all those existing x86 binaries doesn't make that a >>>>realistic possibility. I'm talking about Apple *staying* with PPC. >>>>And yes, I think the console market has a lot of relevance, >>>>particularly to Apple. What are Apple's two major markets? >>>>Consumers and professional content creation. The architectures >>>>being pursued by console vendors are almost taylor made for >>>>addressing the performance concerns users in these markets have. >>>> >>> >>>Consumers and prefessional content creation? Uh, OK, but that doesn't mean >>>that it makes sense to move to a Cell processor platform. Those users may >>>still feel more comfortable doing their content creation in a standard PC >>>environment if the support from Apple was there. Their sysadmins may want >>>it as well. Their companies which pay them may want it. >> >>Huh? I don't understand. The Cell doesn't lack any features that prevent >>it from hosting a "standard PC environment." It's not all vector >>processing, you know -- it has a general-purpose core faster than most >>CPUs currently on the market. It's more than capable of handling all the >>day-to-day tasks of desktop computing -- which as I've pointed out >>aren't all that taxing for modern hardware. > > > Another Cell-related announcement: > > http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20050525/105050/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > IBM Corp. has revealed a prototype blade server board featuring the Cell > microprocessor jointly developed with the Sony Group and Toshiba Corp. > The company demonstrated the prototype in front of only a few clients at > a hotel room outside Los Angeles, US, at the 2005 Electronic > Entertainment Expo (E3), game tradeshow. "We demonstrated the prototype > to show that Cell continues to mature. The product is expected to have > several times higher performance compared to conventional servers," said > an IBM engineer. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > It sure looks like Cell is going to have applications outside of game > consoles. > remember when motorola used to supply all the gaming consoles with thier CPUs? where did it get them.
