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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Anonymous2011-08-14 21:53
5GHz single core CPU capable of say 60 gigaflops (a single core in a Sandy Bridge is around 16 gigaflops at 2GHz for comparison), and just forget about the 40+ teraflops we could have had with a 256-core in-order x86-64 with 1024-bit wide SIMD compute unit
40TFlops with 256 cores is 156.25GFlops per core. Something doesn't add up (or multiply up) here.