IBM is expected to demonstrate a blade server next week based on the Cell processor the company is developing with Toshiba and Sony. The Cell processor, which also is the brains of Sony's upcoming PlayStation 3 videogame console, has a PowerPC processing core supplemented by eight special-purpose cores to boost the chip's calculation abilities.
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Member since:2005-07-07
I didn't see any "bashing", all reasonable arguments.
Ok, need to be a bit clearer here, my bad.
One is considering Cell as next Gods revelation of speed.
Second is talking about thr same thing, but saying it will be slow as 486 DX33
I don't like either. Wait and see. Then bitch or praise. But until then, speculate without posting speed results.
No. If the marketing departments hype it up before it's released and fans are happy to cheer it on, then of course people are entitled to criticise the thing, even if the criticism has to be based on the incomplete information that IBM & Co provide.
Yeah, I don't mind that. I meant bechmarking specification papers, or at least to stand away from speaking about speed. Personaly, I like what Cell provides. But, I plan to test it whether my personal fanboyism was for real or not. This is why I don't like people speaking about tech before it was even out with the same tone as they would be intensivly testing this thing for the last year.
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2005-07-06
I love this. One side bashes, one side praises.
I didn't see any "bashing", all reasonable arguments.
Shouldn't you both wait for this thing to actualy come out? So far only speculations exist.
No. If the marketing departments hype it up before it's released and fans are happy to cheer it on, then of course people are entitled to criticise the thing, even if the criticism has to be based on the incomplete information that IBM & Co provide.