Cell Processor Has Nine Cores

kjuvale

Hey,
the CELL processor from IBM has nine cores.It is clocked at 4GhZ
Can you beat that! Soonly we will say good bye to dual core processors,when there are nine core processors round the corner.

alkady

Too bad they will be extremely expensive for the average consumer.

faker_phil

Exactly, stuff keeps getting better, but also more expensive...

dz9c

Yea tech is great but maybe they should slow down? bah idk

Sukozu

i havent upgraded in 3 years now hehe maybe can hold out another two or so and get one of them yum yum!

Daniel15

Scorpio

You got a point there Daniel.

Now we can afford faster systems and processors(not as fast as this) for a lower price

This will be a general benefit to the customers

blinddeafmute

Donutey

Cell processors are not x86, they're a derivitive of Power PC, thus you won't be able to use them for Windows etc. (not that that's a bad thing Rolling Eyes

) buy IBM says you can run Linux on 'em.

Also the cell has 8 SPEs, with one disabled for redundancy, they are basically very small specialized cores, the 9th/8th "core" is a modified Power PC core that controls all of the little SPEs.

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