Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Cell in a laptop...

[Bob McGwier]

It is EXTREMELY difficult to see how the fine grained control of 
transactional memory that is available with the full cell will be 
available with this "spe's hung on a Core 2".  The first article even 
got it wrong, calling this a core 2 quad (from the remarks that followed 
right after calling it core 2 duo).

Of course, this will not burn a hundred watts to run the six spe's (not 
8 like the first article says) in the PS3 but I suspect that the 
penalties for having this subset are larger than are immediately 
apparent.    Having an EIB is nice but having no IO path (such as would 
exist on a laptop) to get really high speed data into them seems likely 
to not be there.   Almost certainly it will not have a capable 
northbridge to accomplish the high speed IO.

Bob

Eric Blossom wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:33:48AM -0800, Matt Ettus wrote:
>   
> > Cell processor in a laptop at CES...
> >
> >    http://crave.cnet.co.uk/video/0,139101587,49295004,00.htm
> >
> >     
>
> The article doesn't quite get it right (no surprise there)...
>
> The SpursEngine is a media coprocessor that has 4 SPEs in it and
> dedicated h/w for MPEG-2 and H.264.
>
> No PPC, not a "Cell Broadband Engine"
>
>
> This article seems a bit more grounded:
>
>   http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20071017/140756/
>
> Eric
>
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