Upgraded Cell Processor

In an interview with Ken Kutaragi he says that thay will migrate the
Cell Processor to 45nm , 32 nm process to cosume less power and can reach an astonishing 4.6 upto 5+ GHz wow thats awesome I wonder what will be the counter of Microsoft Xbox360 team

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I wonder what will be the counter of Microsoft Xbox360 team

Nothing because you can't change clock speeds once you've released a console.

Reply to Action_Man

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I wonder what will be the counter of Microsoft Xbox360 team

Nothing because you can't change clock speeds once you've released a console.

and for sure it won't be overclockable!

Reply to zarooch

Hopefully it will allow them to release a PS3 normal-size-edition for $400 or less.

Reply to K8MAN

Wow...those Cell processor are promising. It could outperform the mid range and some of the best cpu today!

I'm going to buy one for an entertainment center.

Anyways the price is $499 USD.

Reply to chuckshissle

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Wow...those Cell processor are promising. It could outperform the mid range and some of the best cpu today!

I'm going to buy one for an entertainment center.

Anyways the price is $499 USD.

I'm hoping that K10 is what Cell could have been.

Reply to K8MAN

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Wow...those Cell processor are promising. It could outperform the mid range and some of the best cpu today!

I'm going to buy one for an entertainment center.

Anyways the price is $499 USD.

where can you buy cell processors with the corresponding ram/motherboard7... . I thought they were only inside the ps3

Reply to nigelf

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Wow...those Cell processor are promising. It could outperform the mid range and some of the best cpu today!

I'm going to buy one for an entertainment center.

Anyways the price is $499 USD.

where can you buy cell processors with the corresponding ram/motherboard7... . I thought they were only inside the ps3
You can pick up a dev kit for 20G

Reply to K8MAN

No, what I mean is buy a PS3 for an entertainment setup since my older dvd player is started to be crappy.

Im sure this Cell processors will be out for pc use and alike sometime in the near future, bringing new competition to Intel and AMD.

Can you say Cell fanboi!!!

Reply to chuckshissle

All sounds like fascinating stuff!!!!!

http://cellsupercomputer.com/index.php

Perhaps a little overambitious at this stage in the game though...!!??

Reply to borg22

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Wow...those Cell processor are promising. It could outperform the mid range and some of the best cpu today!

I'm going to buy one for an entertainment center.

Anyways the price is $499 USD.

where can you buy cell processors with the corresponding ram/motherboard7... . I thought they were only inside the ps3
You can pick up a dev kit for 20G
it just kinda busts my budget; but still- thanks

Reply to nigelf

It sounds good but best to wait and see. If Intel and amd had another CPU agenst Amd and Intel it will Lower Prices. And bring in better stuff for us. A battle between cpus. Amd, Intel and Cell.

But we can only hope.

Reply to AtolSammeek

Wait and see for what? Cell will never be released for desktop. It'd be slower and more expensive, woot!

Reply to Action_Man

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Cell will never be released for desktop. It'd be slower and more expensive, woot!

You're right, the Cell probably won't be desktop CPU. However, it wouldn't be a stretch to turn the PS3 into a PC-like computer for those less computer-saavy. It runs Linux already - has networking - USB/Firewire are simple to add - HD is built in. PS3 laptop anybody?

Regardless, the Cell kicks ass in scientific computing. Itanium - blah. Opteron - blah. Even Cray - blah.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32006
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~samw/p [...] l/CF06.pdf

Reply to voxel

Please, if Intel doesn't have 45nm available for retail sale, there's no way IBM will anytime soon.

Reply to Heyyou27

I can think of one company that aren’t averse to dumping an old CPU architecture or even O/S for that matter. Maybe Apple could to a two for the price of one deal next time and shift O/S and CPU architecture simultaneously. iCell & iLux

Reply to crow_smiling

hmmm psp is "overclockable". It has a soft-lock, locking it at 222, if you unlock it runs at 333. It's not a true overclock, but possible...

Reply to jap0nes

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Im sure this Cell processors will be out for pc use and alike sometime in the near future, bringing new competition to Intel and AMD.

Never going to happen. Even if you get one, it will only ever run Linux so its not like you'll be able to play games with one). You could emulate Windows but it still won't be able to run fast enough. They'll probably get to 45nm about the same time as Intel will.

And the SPEs are not cores. They can not schedule their own tasks. They can only be told what to do and return the result.

And so what if it can hit 5GHz. So can Netburst but its still sucks at those frequencies compared to a much lower clocked AMD64. And the PowerPC core of the Cell is a much crappier processor than anything Intel or AMD has.

Reply to FITCamaro

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In an interview with Ken Kutaragi he says that thay will migrate the
Cell Processor to 45nm , 32 nm process to cosume less power and can reach an astonishing 4.6 upto 5+ GHz wow thats awesome I wonder what will be the counter of Microsoft Xbox360 team

Additionally it should be noted that the PS3 is vaporware, most noticeably was the pictures shot at this last E3 showing the Wii was nothing more than a Game Cube running the Wii API, and the PS3 is being emulated off an unknown PC configuration.

So yaa for Sony and their little baby that puts out a bit too much heat for the PS3 form factor and like the Emotion Engine is very task specific, code sensitive, compiler dependant POS that is pure hype and frankly another Sony pipedream.

Reply to spud

Keep in mind that the instruction set for the cell processor is tailored for gaming. I'm not even sure if the cell supports SSE3.

Also, it's an 'untested' architecture. It's promising, yes, but until applied to real-word applications, we won't know the true benefits and pitfalls.

Like the Conroe, it's really best to just give it a real-wold review before boasting about its superiority.

Reply to Whizzard9992

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In an interview with Ken Kutaragi he says that thay will migrate the
Cell Processor to 45nm , 32 nm process to cosume less power and can reach an astonishing 4.6 upto 5+ GHz wow thats awesome I wonder what will be the counter of Microsoft Xbox360 team

Additionally it should be noted that the PS3 is vaporware, most noticeably was the pictures shot at this last E3 showing the Wii was nothing more than a Game Cube running the Wii API, and the PS3 is being emulated off an unknown PC configuration.

So yaa for Sony and their little baby that puts out a bit too much heat for the PS3 form factor and like the Emotion Engine is very task specific, code sensitive, compiler dependant POS that is pure hype and frankly another Sony pipedream.

Actualy the Wii was inside the game cube case but that story DID get printed and later retracted lol

Reply to JonathanDeane

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In an interview with Ken Kutaragi he says that thay will migrate the
Cell Processor to 45nm , 32 nm process to cosume less power and can reach an astonishing 4.6 upto 5+ GHz

Lol, notice he doesn't say when they'll be doing that?

They can't even get good yields on Cell at 90nm, and if you thought prescott was hot... hehe.

Every manufacturer plans to go to 45 and 32 nm, that is nature of the industry.

Reply to iterations

I remember reading an article on Gizmodo about seeing a Cell CPU simultaneously decoding 48 HD signals. Can anyone tell me if that's true?

Reply to shinigamiX

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Lol, notice he doesn't say when they'll be doing that?

Whenever it is, it'll definitely be after Intel has their 45nm and 32nm process.

Reply to Heyyou27

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Regardless, the Cell kicks ass in scientific computing. Itanium - blah. Opteron - blah. Even Cray - blah.

No it doesn't. Its DP performance is average, xenon/waternoose has the same DP performance and its much cheaper to make. It has good SP FP but who uses that for scientific work?

Reply to Action_Man

i saw something that Cell couldnt do mathimatical calculations to fast and was only really a graphical prossesing powerhouse. Like its mathmatical power (doing calculations like physics and what not) is only equal to a Pentium 3
ill try to find the article but it is kinda old..i think it was actually on Toms..

Reply to FatFunkey

Thank you.... finally someone who agrees with me. The cell isnt a magical wonder, our dual cores of today would rip it to shreads and then some. The only reason why this cell is getting so much light shed on it is because sony is hyping it up, just like they hyped the "emmotion engine"....

Reply to Mike995

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Im sure this Cell processors will be out for pc use and alike sometime in the near future, bringing new competition to Intel and AMD.

Never going to happen. Even if you get one, it will only ever run Linux so its not like you'll be able to play games with one). You could emulate Windows but it still won't be able to run fast enough. They'll probably get to 45nm about the same time as Intel will.

And the SPEs are not cores. They can not schedule their own tasks. They can only be told what to do and return the result.

And so what if it can hit 5GHz. So can Netburst but its still sucks at those frequencies compared to a much lower clocked AMD64. And the PowerPC core of the Cell is a much crappier processor than anything Intel or AMD has.

well, if nobody told you before, linux IS an operating system and it can do a lot of things, did you know? This forum you're posting could be running on linux. The e-mail you check or your bank account, whatever. Also, on linux you can browse the web, listen to mp3, watch and encode dvd's/mp3, like i do, and a hell lot of other stuff, so...... it would be awesome if it could reach a pc or something, running a database with a cell @5ghz or whatever.

life is not only about gaming... at least not mine.

Reply to jap0nes

I really doubt they would have looked at cell, theres way you could put that thing in a laptop.

Reply to Action_Man

i doubt it would ever reach desktop market... but i've seen some blade servers using a multi-cell setup

Reply to jap0nes

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I wonder what will be the counter of Microsoft Xbox360 team

Nothing because you can't change clock speeds once you've released a console. If I'm not mistaken Microsoft plans to "upgrade," their 360 console with a smaller process (65nm or something) and increase the clock speed slightly.

Reply to Caboose-1

The cell is AMAZING if the console wars were only about proc. power then PS3 would win...BUT the cell is way to powerful for the pityful NV71 bottleneck. Xbox wins because of a lack of bottle necks and a more advanced graphics card (DX10, SM 4.0, Raw power).

Reply to S7A88Y

so, id like to see a link to where it says xb360 uses sm4? also on ps3 using the nv71?

and consoles arent gonna upgrade the clock speeds, smaller process definatly

apparently xb360 wins even before ps3 comes out, well unless u have proof that ps3s best gfx are some how inferior to the xb360 then ur statement is bs

im not being an ass, but id like to see u back up ur statements

Reply to ryokinshin

I never heard they planned on increasing the clockspeed, and I seriously doubt they will; they're reasoning behind the die shrink will probably include, lower manufacturing cost, heat, lower power consumption.

Reply to Heyyou27

sigh im gonna try to find that article on Cell Processors basicly being graphical power house yet only having the power of a PentiumIII when it comes to calculating physics/mathimatical problems, also the fact that all that power is just going to be bottlenecked not by the graphics but because of how Cell runs and how it accesses the memory its just going to cascade/collapse on its ownself (prob 1 of the reasons its been delayed for so long, to fix all the bugs and find an equalibrium)

"Our new PS2 system will have hardware that can run Toy Story Quality graphics with no trouble." -Sony

Remeber when they said that? so yea guys lets just wait and see what it really looks like, i dont belive the demos at E3 espeically with last year fiasco of PS3/Xbox 360 running on Apple G5s....

Reply to FatFunkey

uh... i never saw toy story, but the gran turismo series have damn good graphics

Reply to jap0nes

I must have misinterperated what I read, so I checked again. And sure enough, I was wrong. What it really said was that the smaller process and manufacturing style might increase the speed in which it performs. Same speed, different architecture. Unless, I'm wrong again. If I am, anyone care to spill the real deal?

Reply to Caboose-1

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If I'm not mistaken Microsoft plans to "upgrade," their 360 console with a smaller process (65nm or something) and increase the clock speed slightly.

Somewhat correct, they're moving to 65nm so they can make big cost savings and have a much cooler cpu, they have no intention of raising the clock. Sony did an excellent job of this with the PS2.

Link.

Reply to Action_Man

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Remeber when they said that? so yea guys lets just wait and see what it really looks like, i dont belive the demos at E3 espeically with last year fiasco of PS3/Xbox 360 running on Apple G5s....

Yeah because they didn't have final hardware. Did you check out THIS years E3?

Reply to Action_Man

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The cell is AMAZING if the console wars were only about proc. power then PS3 would win...BUT the cell is way to powerful for the pityful NV71 bottleneck. Xbox wins because of a lack of bottle necks and a more advanced graphics card (DX10, SM 4.0, Raw power).

FFS the xbox 360 isnt DX 10 and it isnt SM4. Its DX 9 and SM3+. The PS3 has a G71 @ 550mhz.

Reply to Action_Man

IBM and Apple were heading in different directions. They'd consider the POWER 6 before the cell but it (power 6) seems more like a server and workstation cpu then anything else.

Reply to Action_Man

Actually the cell has been thoroughly tested, it's not good for much outside of PS3, is a RISC architecture, and hence won't be coming to PCs, as it will NEVER, EVER support Windows. you can however, run Linux on it.

Reply to djkrypplephite

Cell isn't really all it's made out to be. I've had some hands on time with the hardware, and it's just the "emotion effect" all over again. It's nice to see american made hardware prevail

Reply to jkflipflop98

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It's nice to see american made hardware prevail

what you mean by that? now toshiba and sony are american companies, maybe?

Reply to jap0nes

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well, if nobody told you before, linux IS an operating system and it can do a lot of things, did you know? This forum you're posting could be running on linux. The e-mail you check or your bank account, whatever. Also, on linux you can browse the web, listen to mp3, watch and encode dvd's/mp3, like i do, and a hell lot of other stuff, so...... it would be awesome if it could reach a pc or something, running a database with a cell @5ghz or whatever.

life is not only about gaming... at least not mine.

Thank you for that groundbreaking news. My point is why would anyone pay a premium for a Cell chip to run Linux on a personal machine when they could get an Intel or AMD processor at way cheaper of a price. You don't need a ton of computational power to run an email server, browse the web, or listen to mp3s. Sure encoding DVDs would benefit, but at what price point.

Cell is a pointless chip to have inside of a personal computer other than to say, "I've got a Cell."

Reply to FITCamaro

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Cell is a pointless chip to have inside of a personal computer other than to say, "I've got a Cell."

well, a FX-62, a pair of X1900 are pointless chip/cards to have inside a computer, but there seem to have some people that buy them just to say: "i have a FX-62 or a pair of X1900"

also, i was trying to say that this processor could have some uses outside the ps3, as you were saying it was useless as it couldnt run windows, just linux.

if you're interest, you can search google for: cell processor blade server

also, the way you said, sounded like linux is useless in a home computer, but that's not what happens, as i use linux at home for 6 years.

Reply to jap0nes

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