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To: tejek who wrote (279203)	3/9/2006 6:11:18 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1585572

"Thanks. Pretty impressive........its sounds almost too good to be true. " It is. So far at least. Oh, it exists. And in some cases it shows its power. But at the cost of losing backwards compatibility and complexity in programming. It looks like PS/3 is running into snags with game production to the point that at least one programmer went public about the problems and got canned as a result under pressure from Sony. I've got some half-baked ideas on how these problems can be solved, but I should work out the details... "What do you mean by "suck down inventory"?" I meant they drew down inventory of partially completed wafers and packaged chips. To the point that it really needs to be replenished soon. "Is Fab 36 in Dresden?" Yes. It was built as an extension to Fab30, with shared common areas. Intel's new chips have made quite a splash at the Intel Developers Forum. They have demo'd some benchmarks for a couple of web sites and they look startling good. No doubt they were picked to show off their chips strong points, everybody does that, but there are reasons to suspect that the AMD machines didn't have their memory controller set up properly due to an outdated BIOS. So the performance differences might not be as extreme as the benchmarks indicate. Regardless, it should be an interesting time for AMD come Q4, and if they have nothing new between now and then they could be in trouble for Q4 through Q3 of next year on the desktop.

To: tejek who wrote (279203)	3/9/2006 10:27:29 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585572

What is cell? I have never heard of it." blachford.info Thanks. Pretty impressive........its sounds almost too good to be true. Not bad. A major problem with the IBM Cell is, however, that it isn't a scalable architecture. Great for doing a super computer where you need most bang for the buck on each blade - assuming you have a major power plant right next door - but not the best for major real life applications like cell base stations, which now plan on going Soft Radio and eventually eliminate DSPs like from T.I. and ADI. A more practical alternative may be developments like pasemi.com Taro Taro