What if we had one of these to play with?

[The Virus]

Could this mean the end of pc's?

http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell1.html

[Korpse]

whoa that thing is SWEET!!!

[RaptorRaider]

The first Cell based desktop computer will be the fastest desktop computer in the industry by a very large margin. Even high end multi-core x86s will not get close. Companies who produce microprocessors or DSPs are going to have a very hard time fighting the power a Cell will deliver. We have never seen a leap in performance like this before and I don't expect we'll ever see one again, It'll send shock-waves through the entire industry and we'll see big changes as a result.


So you think your PC is fast...
It is where multiple memory banks are being used and the APUs are working on compute heavy streaming applications that the Cell will be working hardest. It's in these applications that the Cell may get close to it's theoretical maximum performance and perform over an order of magnitude more calculations per second than any desktop processor currently available.

If over clocked sufficiently (over 3.0GHz) and using some very optimised code (SSE assembly), 5 dual core Opterons directly connected via HyperTransport should be able to achieve a similar level of performance in stream processing - as a single Cell.

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And they're saying these chips aren't going to be expensive...

[Disposibleteen]

umm hmm, i must have missed the part about when they will b available, anyone help me out on this one?? I WANT 1!

[madgamer]

From what I have read, these are pretty much gonna be for IBM super computers untill they come out in the PS3 and the high end Sony HDTVs in Japan somewhere around a year or 2 from now. I guess by that point though they may be available in a more consumer friendly form for desktops, but I somehow doubt you will be seeing these in a desktop anytime soon.

[craig588]

Just buy a PS3, install a mod chip in it and download the ported distributed compuing client. (I know there will be some, they even ported some to the GBA which has a 16MHz ARM7)