Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
Hi I heard today from a mate who works with computers that sony ericsson will be putting a cell processor (a similar design to the ps3) into one of their phones (i thought possible the p1000), obviously it would not be as fast as the ps3 etc, but it would make the phones super fast. Do you recon this is possible/true?
Posted by Gigs
Wouldn't heat, power usage, pricing and other factors come into play?
It'd be nifty but I can't realistically see it happening.
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
thats what I thought, the battery life would be rally bad unlesshtey invented some type of new battery...
Posted by mustafabay
Don't forget size. Any PC processor is to large for mobile usage.
Posted by (An)Dante
Well, if you consider the architecture it would be good for a mobile, I mean on really low or scalable clock.
Posted by Dragonfly_TP
hmm teh cell processor is not a processor intended for pc's. It's a risc processor designed by IBM and used in servers and now also for game computers. The processor has the size of a pc processor and maybe even higher power consumption. For cooling you need at least a big heatsink and even better with it's own fan for cooling.
Posted by (An)Dante
Well, in mobile devices the ARM9 core based risc processors are widely used. The risc architecture uses fixed-width instructions what requires less complex cache and processing architecture this why the power connsuption is less compared to a same speed (measured in MIPS, FLOPS whatever) cisc processor.
The IBM Cell uses a main processor and 8 vector processors with dedicated cache to be extrememly fast however the FLOPS/Watt ratio is far better compared to a cisc architecture.
For mobile devices the most important part is the power consumption and the scalable performance.
Posted by Pradhika
With so much in it should weigh heavy.
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
depends, I asumen if it were true they would use smaller processers joind together or something
Posted by vanquish
i dont believe it, sorry.
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
I must admit it seems unlikely, but then again we will have to wait and see for the p1000 when ever it comes out
Posted by Psykotik
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In fact, the Cell may well be used in PC's as it can run a variety of different OS quite competently (Mac OSX and Linux deffo so far) It was also specifically designed around Sony's criteria, but based upon existing server technology.
Obviously the processor technology is going to be used in small scale devices, but even more obviously it's not going to be implemented using the existing processor, that would be a totally retarded assumption.