"Conventional archicteure", what is that?

[EndR]

Some thoughts about this.. which is Revolution-related.
In many articles and even some interviews, it has been said that Rev will be conventional in design and easy to develop for etc.

Now, is a conventional architecure 1 CPU and 1 GPU? Because for example, in the arstechnica feature about Broadway, they use the word conventional but then speculate about a 2 core solution for Rev, which AISI (as I see it) isn´t "very" conventional.

Could you say that at multicore cpu-solution is conventional?

 

[Shifty Geezer]

I would guess conventional means not customised to support a streaming FPU heavy approach. To make the most of XeCPU and Cell needs the development of new algorithms - Cell especially. A conventional approach would allow the use of existing conventional algorithmic solutions.

 

[MrWibble]

I thought that conventional for Nintendo meant it would come in a variety of bright colours.

 

[darkblu]

Some thoughts about this.. which is Revolution-related.
In many articles and even some interviews, it has been said that Rev will be conventional in design and easy to develop for etc.

Now, is a conventional architecure 1 CPU and 1 GPU? Because for example, in the arstechnica feature about Broadway, they use the word conventional but then speculate about a 2 core solution for Rev, which AISI (as I see it) isn´t "very" conventional.

Could you say that at multicore cpu-solution is conventional?

a dual OOOE core with or without SMT is pretty convential by today's standards.
a dual in-order core with or without SMT is as conventional as your compiler makes it to be. or your assembly skills - dunno if the latter by itself is still considered conventional though.