22 Feb
2005
22 Feb
'05
2:41 p.m.
Steve Harris wrote:
The cell is arranged in vectors though, so might not be optimized for
classical DSP algorithms.
The upcoming vmx2/altivec2 on the other hand, will rewire the double
registers for taking complex FFTs and such.
Because there
isn't enough demand for it. Only musicians have any
serious use for that kind of hardware, whereas half the planet needs
accelerated graphics - especially with all the eyecandy that
Microsoft, Apple, the KDE and Gnome people etc have decided we
need. ;-)
Yes, except that the Cell processor is quite DSP like with 8 floating
point processors per cell,
... I dont know if it will ever become afordable
in some package thats available to consumers, but it would be very good
for audio processing.
It will be afordable at some point in time ... in a consumer package
from sony.