Dejstvo je to nasledna evolucija procesorjev, ki ga bo pač na našo srečo,
prvi deležen PS3.
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-Cell is a breakthrough architectural design -- featuring 8 Synergistic Processing Units (SPU) with Power-based core, with top clock speeds exceeding
4 GHz up to 5GHz (as measured during initial laboratory testing)
-Cell is OS neutral - supporting multiple operating systems simultaneously
-Cell is a multicore chip comprising 8 SPUs and a 64-bit Power processor core capable of massive floating point processing
-Special circuit techniques, rules for modularity and reuse, customized clocking
structures, and unique power and thermal management concepts were
applied to optimize the design
-Contains 8 SPUs each containing a 128 entry 128-bit register file and 256KB Local Store
-2.5MB of on Chip memory (512KB L2 and 8 * 256K
-234 million transistors
-Prototype die size of 221mm2
CELL is a Broadband Architecture
-Fabricated with 90nanometer (nm) SOI process technology
-128+ concurrent transactions to memory per processor
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Cell so predstavili na ISSCCju (International Solid-State Circuits Conference), daleč naj-naj-najboljša prireditev za semiconductorje. Tu so Intel, IBM,.. predstavili svoje najbolj pričakovano novost. Zahtevajo, da imaš delujoč procesor in ne samo specifikacije na papirju.