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Toshiba to sell Cell processor laptop
- jaydub 19y agoThe Cell is a magnificent piece of hardware. However, I would just like to echo preinterpost's comment on betanews: the Cell is notoriously difficult to program. Getting efficient speedups requires the most skilled programmers and quite a bit of effort. To understand the difficulties in programming its worth taking a look at this article: http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/197801624?pgno=5 http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/197801624?... "preinterpost
- wmf 19y agoI suspect Toshiba will solve that problem by not allowing you to program the SPEs at all. :-)