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Cell Processors: Separating Reality From HypeProduct Type: Market Research ReportPublished by: In-Stat Published: April 2005 Product Code: R97-1982 Description Cell is real. Cell is out-finally! IBM has been eager to reveal more about a project on which it has been hard at work for almost five years. The Cell processor has been shrouded in secrecy, necessitated by the competitive nature of the multi-billion-dollar game-console market. With the first production units still at least a year away, Sony, Toshiba, and IBM now feel comfortable to begin revealing the nature of the processor and the system design.
"Cell Processors: Separating Reality from Hype" offers in-depth technical analysis of the Cell processor as well as explores Cell's effect on the game-console market. Table of Contents Executive Summary Methodology Overview Getting Inside the Cell Processor Power Processor Element Provides Control SPE Provides the Brawn Security Built In Memory Flow Controller Moves the Data The Memory and I/O by Rambus EIB Ties It All Together Power Under Control Programmed for Success? Evaluation of the Cel-Cutting through the Hype Market Outlook PlayStation 3 Other Glossary of Terms List of Tables Table 1. Total Combined PlayStation 3, Xbox 2 & Revolution Shipment & Revenue Forecast 2005-2008 Table 2. A comparison between the Cell processor and the Emotion Engine Table 3. Detailed PlayStation 3, Xbox 2 & Revolution Shipment & Revenue Forecast 2005-2008 List of Figures Figure 1. Block diagram of the Cell processor Figure 2. Cell Processor Block Diagram Figure 3. Pipeline of the Power Architecture core of the Cell processor Figure 4. SPU pipeline diagram Figure 5. The instruction format of the SPE, supporting three source operands and one destination Figure 6. The SPE is capable of limited dual-issue operation |
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