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Sounds a lot like the Cell in concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)
by Symmetry 9y ago
Sounds a lot like the Cell in concept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)
- vonmoltke 9y agoThe SPUs on the Cell were closer in concept to DSPs than they are to what the article describes. The Cell chip itself was essentially a general-purpose CPU joined in silicon to several DSPs. The SPUs are still designed for sequential processing of memory, just smaller, discrete blocks. The whole chip is orchestrated by a standard von Neumann processor anyway, so that acts as a bottleneck to keeping the SPUs busy.