Cell CPU as the next thing?

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What do you think about using a Cell CPU that has 30x FPU performance to that of a Intel PC as the CPU for a computing platform?

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Thought reading - FAIL

I were just thinking of which CPU that would be real neat as a power platform for a low price.

I suspect however CPU:s aren't the technology that will make things possible that ain't currently in the price segment.

The paper: Soft-DVB: A Fully-Software GNURadio-based, ETSI DVB-T Modulator writes about the performance advantage of the Cell CPU:

On the Cell BE platform, the accessible computing power will be approximately 3*10^10 floating point operations per second (flops), which is approximately 30 times the computing power of the machine used to test the current version of Soft-DVB.

As for the current processor:

3.0-GHz Intel Pentium IV processor, draining 83% of its computational power.

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Any desktop applications that would be possible given a different but cheap platform?

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I agree that Sony is product flaw.

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Forget the CPU for a moment - What Custom chips should a new Amiga have that could make it stand out from other platforms on the market. Ill throw one into the  mix.

I agree on this!

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I read that the Motorola 56000 @ 33 MHz that the Atari Falcon used enabled it to play mp3 in realtime, doing spectrum analyse using the sound input with 4096 point FFT. The performance is like 1,8 ms for a 1024 point FFT.

Maybe that's a hint as to what kind of periphial circuits that could be useful?

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OpenCL, as in 0wn3d by Apple for use with closed hardware like Nvidia?

The power of Amiga comes from powerful auxillary chips?

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To me, CPU that can run HTML5 broswer, 720 dpi video and other daily productivity apps and good OS is enough for 90% of people.

The point is being able to do something that makes people be amazed what the platform can do. Competing in the bread-and-butter swamp is better done by others. I think the Amiga as a concept in make the most performance for a low price which is set high enough to still make things possible. Thinking of it, it was the custom chips that made the Amiga .. OMG! the straightforward layout of the m68k just made it even better.

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With a price tag to make them an uncompetitive with a used stationary computer?