Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12058 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> Probably special blocks for crypto, network etc.
I hope not, but rather this:
> don't be surprised if SPEs turn up at some point.
...as that's exactly what Jim and I are talking about here in this thread regarding POWER8 all along. So no surprise from us I'm afraid. Seems you lost track a bit ;-) To see where this sub-discussion started in this thread three weeks ago refer to:
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=3&topic_id=7183&start=294
So I think that the mention of "Accelerators" in the PDF files I linked to might refer to SPEs rather than crypto or network accelerators.