Anyone know what the new CORE proccessor is all about? Saw it on the cover of a PC mag and said it was 4 times faster and silent!

not sure but isnt it the one developed by sony for the ps3


if so DAMN its good

Sony one is the CELL processor :-)

If it's M$ its: this

or it could be an AMD variant?

[Edited on 6/2/06 by muzchap]

But the man on the right scared me so I shut it again He was the baddie in Captain Scarlet.

My lad has just bought a duel core processer.
His pvevious one was positively smokey and he says the duel core one is 2and a half times better,
Combined with an equally smokey graphics card you have what I believe is called the dogs nuts.

IBM has been doing alot of research on the Core...said to kill the PC in 5 to 10 years.
(Cell)

Mutliple cores built on to a single chip (like eight cores I was reading, moving processes and memory onto the chip they can really crunch some numbers)

It will be interesting....

Double speed by 2007
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c41f2d94-973c-11da-82b7-0000779e2340.html

Sony IBM alliance
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/12/sti_alliance_extended_five_years/

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/index.php?p=517

Cell computing ??? or Dual / multiple Core?

Did this help or muddy the waters? ( I think I confused myself...Sorry)

[Edited on 7/2/06 by dl_peabody]

Looks like there will be a war on between IBM, Intel (ding ding ding - just like the ads!) and AMD!! YAY!

I read a paper on the cell processor a couple of years ago and it came to these conclusions:

It's been suggested that the Cell will be of limited use in a general purpose home computer because;

* Most of its raw power lies in the highly parallel nature of its vector APUs and most home computing tasks don't make heavy use of highly parallel vector code. Nor could they.

* It's main core, although based on the POWER arch, is a relativley simple in-order execution unit. So while it can chew through one task quite quickly it'll be stuck with the kind if heavily branching and context switching code you use on a home PC.

--

Now i understand the code branching bit but not the "highly parallel nature of its vector APUs"



[Edited on 7/2/06 by Gav]

I'm sure the reviews will tell us all.