IBM announces PowerXCell 8i, QS22 blade server

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    IBM today made formal the announcement of an HPC-targeted variant of the Cell B.E. processor, given the name PowerXCell 8i. Featuring re-engineered SPEs with enhanced dual-precision performance and improved memory addressability, the processor is capable of ~102 DP GFlops and addressing up to...

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    Nice. Though This cannot be concidered "CELL 2" or next-gen CELL. It's merely an updated current-gen CELL optimized for DP.
     
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    Well right, the last paragraph alludes to as much.
     
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