Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Cell Chip in a laptop

[Eric Blossom]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 05:22:52PM -0700, Matt Ettus wrote:
>
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080623-cell-chip-makes-laptop-debut-in-toshiba-qosmio-but-why.html
>

Thanks.  The guy writing the article is basically clueless.  

> From the article:
>
> The flavor of Cell BE that Toshiba uses in the G50 is called the
> SpursEngine, and it's a 65nm, four-SPE variant of the PlayStation 3's
> CPU. (Recall that the PS3's Cell is fabbed with eight "synergistic
> processing elements," or SPEs, but only seven of them are functional
> for yield reasons.) My guess is that Toshiba is taking Cell chips that
> don't have seven fully functional SPEs, shutting off four of the SPEs
> (including the non-functional ones), and selling the resulting
> four-SPE part as the SpursEngine.

His guess is total BS...


Interview w/ Toshiba guy w/ a clue:

  http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20071017/140756/


I wonder if they'll make the documentation on the SpursEngine
available and if Linux will run on the G50?

Eric