[mythtv-users] "Cell Microprocessor Simultaneously Decoding 48
MPEG-2 Streams"
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon May 2 22:04:49 UTC 2005
Devan Lippman wrote:
> I hope I can get one of these as the CPU for my machine!
np. Cell will be available in early 2006. Linux will support it in
late 2005.
> Been a while since I read that explination but I think that its a
> series of power CPUs arranged similar to a beowulf cluster all on one
> chip which means it shouldn't be too far off from existing CPUs that
> linux will run on in the final presentation to the system.
> Interesting that they have a screenshot of the demo being replayed in
> windows media player and not the original demo... still I LOVE SMP
> and this should have the potential to kill current SMP, AMD and INTEL
> Multicore all in one hit.
>
And, since Sony and Microsoft are buddy-buddy, we're sure to have
Windows support, so no need for x86 anymore.
Oh. Wait a minute. That's right. Sony and Microsoft hate each other
(which is much of the reason that Sony doesn't want to support the "must
include VC-1 (Windows Media Audio/Video 9) CODEC" HD-DVD specification
and wants to go with the "non-MS CODEC's" Blu-Ray format). Oh well,
it's a sweet chip for a PS3 (Sony's saying 1000x--that's times, not
percent--the performance of a PS2. (I'm buying a PS3, but not buying
any games for it. The only game I'll need is Linux.)
Mike
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