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Subject: Re: PS3 with 8 cores

Author: Daniel Pineo

Date: 16:13:47 05/17/05

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On May 17, 2005 at 02:40:27, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>8 cores at 3.2 Ghz? On the the surface, the specs appear impressive. Could this
>hardware really be effective for a chess engine?
>
>http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050516_223209.html


It looks like it has 8 cores, each with 128 low latency SIMD registers 128 bits
wide.  I'd say it holds some promise.  Given that the SIMD functionality isn't
being added on as an afterthought it's sure to be more useful than MMX/SSE

- Dan Pineo



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