Proud to announce that Johan's second article on AnandTech is up - have a look at it if you haven't already. Part II should be equally interesting as I got Tim Sweeney to answer a few of Johan's questions about dual cores and games :)
I'm working on the Mac HTPC article right now, but I will chime in with my thoughts on Cell in the next day or two. So far I'm not totally impressed, but I think that's mostly because of a lack of information being published right now - what clock speed the SPEs run at is far from the most important part of the architecture.
I wish I had been at ISSCC as I'm now playing phone tag trying to get the answers to my questions with folks who are at ISSCC, which means they are basically unaccessible. So if any of my IBM/Rambus contacts are reading this - check your voicemail :)
I'm working on the Mac HTPC article right now, but I will chime in with my thoughts on Cell in the next day or two. So far I'm not totally impressed, but I think that's mostly because of a lack of information being published right now - what clock speed the SPEs run at is far from the most important part of the architecture.
I wish I had been at ISSCC as I'm now playing phone tag trying to get the answers to my questions with folks who are at ISSCC, which means they are basically unaccessible. So if any of my IBM/Rambus contacts are reading this - check your voicemail :)
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Peter Filias - Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - link
Yeah, that diagram looks nasty. I emailed him about it, but he never responded. :(Anonymous - Friday, February 11, 2005 - link
I don't think Johan made that diagram. If I am not wrong, he probably copy-n-pasted it from an official document or something.Ed - Friday, February 11, 2005 - link
Get this guy some nice charting software. His illustrations don't come close to matching the rest of the site...http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/cpu/singlecore...
Rand - Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - link
It's still a little odd not seeing Johan's byline at AcesHardware anymore, but you've definitely got one of the most respected writers around and I expect his articles will be even better then the high standard we're accustomed to now that he has the resources of AnandTech behind him.quiksel - Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - link
I must admit, what I like best about the article was the "References" section with allllll the links that Johan used in his research.Very polished stuff; the scholarly credibility goes way up with references, of course, but for guys like me that's interested in the wild tangents while reading a technical article, this was a godsend.
Anand, I'd love to see more of this stuff in other articles. It's all concise and in one place!
crtfanboy - Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - link
Yeah, I have to say, great article... you sure can pick your staff Anand. Throw in a couple more recipes and use stepmania with video for benchmarking and I'd say "anandtech is the best site in the whole world" without hesitation.Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - link
demo24That's great to hear! Drop him an email (johan@anandtech.com) and let him know.
Take care,
Anand
demo24 - Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - link
Johan's article was nice! Though a bit hard at times to understand but thats understandable considering the depth it went into. Still a good read though! Learned some things to :)Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - link
BobHannibal's articles are always top notch, this one included. Beyond comparison, his article was the best out of everything that's been posted about Cell. My problem is that the remaining 99% of articles (basically all of those published before Hannibal's) told me absolutely nothing, and often times just raised more questions than they answered - other than telling me how many transistors the chip had and how big it was :)
Take care,
Anand
Bob - Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - link
I'm curious what you think of Ars Technica's article on the cell processor here:http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/cell-1....