More on Cell

As the STI group revealed even more information on their Cell processor Ars Technica has published a sequel to their article on the Cell-arcitecture.

Unfortunately Sony, Toshiba and IBM was a bit short on the juicy information during their second presentation, but despite that Ars Techinica managed to gather some interesting information on the processor’s arcitecture.

“The basic architecture of the Cell is described by IBM as a “system on a chip” (SoC) design. This is a perfectly good characterization, but I’d take it even further and call Cell a “network on a chip.” As I described yesterday, the Cell’s eight SPUs are essentially full-blown vector “computers,” insofar as they are fairly simple CPUs with their own local storage.”

You can find the second part of Ars Technica’s Cell article here.