Comments on: Sony To Sell Cell Chip Production Plant http://www.digitalbattle.com/2007/09/16/sony-to-sell-cell-chip-production-plant/ Game News For the Masses Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:45:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Evander http://www.digitalbattle.com/2007/09/16/sony-to-sell-cell-chip-production-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-20817 Evander Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:32:56 +0000 http://www.digitalbattle.com/2007/09/16/sony-to-sell-cell-chip-production-plant/#comment-20817 Even if the PS3 lasted ten years, why are they still planning to have a new console in a few years? What would be the point? By then there could be a chip better than the cell. Even if the PS3 lasted ten years, why are they still planning to have a new console in a few years? What would be the point? By then there could be a chip better than the cell.

]]> By: James Hyde http://www.digitalbattle.com/2007/09/16/sony-to-sell-cell-chip-production-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-20815 James Hyde Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:03:47 +0000 http://www.digitalbattle.com/2007/09/16/sony-to-sell-cell-chip-production-plant/#comment-20815 <p><p>Monarky: The cell has 8 cores. PS3 has only 6 accessible cores, the seventh is in a special mode and is dedicated to aspects of the OS and security, and an eighth is disabled to improve production yields. And the "cores" aren't actually cores as with x86 CPUs from Intel and AMD, they're "SPEs", Synergistic Processing Elements. An equivalent 3.2 GHz Intel Quad Core can easily catch up with the Cell, especially the new versions which are coming later this year.</p></p> <p>Monarky: The cell has 8 cores. PS3 has only 6 accessible cores, the seventh is in a special mode and is dedicated to aspects of the OS and security, and an eighth is disabled to improve production yields. And the “cores” aren’t actually cores as with x86 CPUs from Intel and AMD, they’re “SPEs”, Synergistic Processing Elements. An equivalent 3.2 GHz Intel Quad Core can easily catch up with the Cell, especially the new versions which are coming later this year.</p>

]]> By: Monarky2 http://www.digitalbattle.com/2007/09/16/sony-to-sell-cell-chip-production-plant/comment-page-1/#comment-20812 Monarky2 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:57:04 +0000 http://www.digitalbattle.com/2007/09/16/sony-to-sell-cell-chip-production-plant/#comment-20812 They own 3 plants and this is the oldest one. They will keep the two plants they spent 4 Billion building that are set to ramp to 32nm in two years. Plus they still own two production lines in IBM's East Fishkill, NY Cell plant. Sony's remaining plants along with the two IBM Lines are putting fully fuctioning 9 core Cell BE's. Surprize to most people is that Sony did not use cripple chips with one set aside for redundency as claimed. All PS3's have the capability to run all 9 cores. Plus they are all fully capable of dynamic on the fly clocking between 3.2 and 5+ ghz! In fact newest RSX, Super Companion Controller, and Cell are all at 65nm to run cooler and with dynamic burst clocking exceeding all older claims. When they said the PS3 was upgradable? They meant it!!! hehe That 10 life cycle? It's true!!! LOLz The Cell alone is capable of 20+years of use, because of it's dynamic clocking nature making it almost human like! ;) Where is Intel's Cell type chip? ..... not til 2012! Remember main difference? Asymmetrical Multi-Cores! They own 3 plants and this is the oldest one. They will keep the two plants they spent 4 Billion building that are set to ramp to 32nm in two years. Plus they still own two production lines in IBM’s East Fishkill, NY Cell plant.

Sony’s remaining plants along with the two IBM Lines are putting fully fuctioning 9 core Cell BE’s. Surprize to most people is that Sony did not use cripple chips with one set aside for redundency as claimed. All PS3’s have the capability to run all 9 cores. Plus they are all fully capable of dynamic on the fly clocking between 3.2 and 5+ ghz!

In fact newest RSX, Super Companion Controller, and Cell are all at 65nm to run cooler and with dynamic burst clocking exceeding all older claims. When they said the PS3 was upgradable? They meant it!!! hehe That 10 life cycle? It’s true!!! LOLz

The Cell alone is capable of 20+years of use, because of it’s dynamic clocking nature making it almost human like! ;)

Where is Intel’s Cell type chip? ….. not til 2012!
Remember main difference? Asymmetrical Multi-Cores!

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