Carmack does hope that Sony avoids the Cell architecture all together due to the difficulty in development.
Fuck cell! For the Carmack's ために!
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Anonymous2011-08-13 23:42
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He's in luck. The rumors are that Sony is considering a variant of IBM's Power 7 for the Playstation 4 on a 28nm high-performance HKMG process, which mean it would probably feature 8 cores. Power 7 has an extremely deep instruction pipeline and features 4-way hyperthreading, which would give it 32 hardware threads. And since all of the cores are homogeneous, you don't have to fuck around with DMA'ing shit and compiling your code for two different ISAs. It would be around ~12 times faster than the Cell CPU in the PS3.