Comments on: IBM cancels Cell Processor development

By: fred

fred — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:30:06 +0000

the author is mistaken,

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/IBM-Cell-Processor-Technology-Will-Continue-271439/

By: Death of the Cell – Stumbling Ahead - Nick Haemel

Death of the Cell – Stumbling Ahead - Nick Haemel — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:20:24 +0000

[...] many starts and stops, the IBM Cell processor seems to finally have reached the end of a short road. The chip used in the Sony PS3 and several server solutions, never seemed to take [...]

By: IBM Cancels Cell Processor Development | remove the labels | Gadgets and Life

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:09:15 +0000

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By: IBM cancels Cell Processor development | Cell-Systems

IBM cancels Cell Processor development | Cell-Systems — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:23:55 +0000

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By: Patrick Steen

Patrick Steen — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:47:29 +0000

Thanks John. Naughty.

By: The Dean

The Dean — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:24:33 +0000

We’re aware.

By: John

John — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:08:30 +0000

Just thought I’d mention that the waster gamer blog has copy pasted your post.

By: Some Linux on PS3 updates - hbr

Some Linux on PS3 updates - hbr — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:32:36 +0000

[...] will not be releasing a previously planned successor to the PowerXCell 8i [heise online, Playstation University] (neither article conveys particularly clear information to me – not least because I have [...]

By: Shojingod

Shojingod — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:27:13 +0000

PS3 will be around for a very long time. For Xbox360 I believe they will have to come out with a Blueray version sooner or later and do some major engineering fixes regarding issues. We have still lot of lead way to play in before anything better is required for long time since the home video source is lock at 1080P. The question is even if a PS4 gets develop will the graphic quality be noticeable or that much better. HD now is 1080P and will be the standard for many many years. People are still in the process of upgrading there TV. We have reach a plateau when it comes to graphics and not go into the cost expenditure of high end GPU’s that are currently only available for PC’s in the 300 to 600 dollard range. Sony and Microsoft still have to recuperate much of the RND and loss from the sales of the current systems. I don’t believe we will see a new system in the next 4 years if not more.

By: Patrick Steen

Patrick Steen — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:23:17 +0000

Edgar: Just a point – “Unfortunately the PS3’s cell processors can’t be easily utilized for graphics rendering.” – this only isn’t wrong, it’s contradictory to reality.

What you say now is what they thought in 2007. But since then, developers have been putting most of their GPU operations onto the Cell – something that no other Chip design has been able to do (at least in the console space) – and something that IBM will be continuing with hybrid designs.