Intel vs. Cell technology (was RE: Hell has frozen over)

[Nicholas Leippe]

On Tuesday 07 June 2005 07:22 am, JStay at mediageneral.com wrote:
> I'm not stating that they will duplicate Sony's architecture, but rather
> that they will come up with some other architecture that can compete at
> Sony (and IBM)'s level.  That is, only if Sony can drive up competition
> for Intel.  At the moment this is only in the games market, so we'll see
> what happens.

This is not only in the games market.  The cell cpu was not designed solely 
for games.  In fact, it was designed specifically with hdtv in mind--it has 
the exact number of ALUs necessary to process an hdtv stream.  IOW, besides 
the PS3, they are gunning for the embedded market, set tops, etc.  Can you 
imagine having a cell phone with one of these babies?

AFAIK, the set top and embedded markets are far more valuable than the gaming 
(video cards) and game console markets.

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Respectfully,

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