The Cell Processor
Mainstream processor development is mostly targeted at compatibility and continuity. Thus, the processor market is dominated by x86 compatible CPUs since more than two decades now. Several new concepts tried to gain some market share, but it was not possible to overtake the old compatibility driven...
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Technische Universität Chemnitz
2006
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| Online Access: | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200600280 https://monarch.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A18467 https://monarch.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A18467/attachment/ATT-0/ https://monarch.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A18467/attachment/ATT-1/ |
| Summary: | Mainstream processor development is mostly targeted at compatibility and
continuity. Thus, the processor market is dominated by x86 compatible
CPUs since more than two decades now. Several new concepts tried to gain
some market share, but it was not possible to overtake the old
compatibility driven concepts. A group of three corporates tries another
way to come into the market with a new idea, the cell design. The cell
processor is a new try to leverage the increasing amount of transistors
per die in an efficient way. The new processor is targeted at the game
console and consumer electronics market to enhance the quality of these
devices. This will lead to a wide spreading, and if everybody has two or
more cell processors in TV, game console or PDA, the interesting
question comes up: what can I do with these processors? This paper gives
a short overview of the architecture and several programming ideas which
help to exploit the whole processing power of the cell processor. |
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