DVorak says Cell may rival X86

CellIn a recent article on foxnews, John Dvorak (known for his commentary on IT related matters) has taken a fairly thorough look at the PC chip manufacturing business and sees the Cell as a possible alternative to the current monoculture in the industry.

So I’m looking for a new platform to arrive, and there is already talk about the new IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell chip becoming a PC platform.


He goes on to describe the possibilities of the Cell coming to the desktop and other devices. With IBM recently making announcements of development of Cell based Blade servers, the application of the Cell is not going to be kept purely to the domain of the Playstation 3.

Additionally with technologies like the Octopiler from IBM, the Cell doesnt necessarily have to be an extremely difficult piece of hardware to develop on.

Dvorak contends that the newer technology may or may not see its way to the desktop in the future. The Cell has the potential to provide truly amazing performance, nearing super-computer type specifications. To see this CPU make its way to the desktop market would see a whole factor increase in the performance of desktop applications and games. Who knows, it may happen.

CellIn a recent article on foxnews, John Dvorak (known for his commentary on IT related matters) has taken a fairly thorough look at the PC chip manufacturing business and sees the Cell as a possible alternative to the current monoculture in the industry.

So I’m looking for a new platform to arrive, and there is already talk about the new IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell chip becoming a PC platform.


He goes on to describe the possibilities of the Cell coming to the desktop and other devices. With IBM recently making announcements of development of Cell based Blade servers, the application of the Cell is not going to be kept purely to the domain of the Playstation 3.

Additionally with technologies like the Octopiler from IBM, the Cell doesnt necessarily have to be an extremely difficult piece of hardware to develop on.

Dvorak contends that the newer technology may or may not see its way to the desktop in the future. The Cell has the potential to provide truly amazing performance, nearing super-computer type specifications. To see this CPU make its way to the desktop market would see a whole factor increase in the performance of desktop applications and games. Who knows, it may happen.

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