Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 365 from 2003/3/28
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Your posts contained the first speculation about Power8 featuring SPEs that I'd seen,
Not really, IBM have pretty much said this themselves.
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but it does look like this is going to happen.
The PS4 is a complete unknown since Sony doesn't want the public to focus on that yet. I think they're afraid it would hurt PS3 sales.
Sony are keeping quiet but there's been rumours about a 16 SPE+2 PPE version.
Sony have said they want to keep costs down and give an architecture change would be a huge cost I take that to confirm Cell again.
As to whether the new PPE is Out-of-Order is another question altogether. They should be able to get the power down by now, but it's really a question of if it provides that much benefit to the target applications.
