Our goal with the Cell is to be an order of magnitude faster

That coin should have a 26.5 mm diameter. Coin area should be about 550 mm2

 

I can't see pin shadows against that coin...

 

So there are... other places.... with creatures that live beyond our borders?
But we are told not stray into their place, and they do not come into ours.

 

Ok, after looking at the picture, I can discern that the shorter side of the chip rectangle is exactly half the diameter (13.25mm), and longer is about 0.8399060% of the diameter (I have very sharp eyes), giving me 22.257508 mm.

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OMG CELL has a die area of 294.912 mm2

 

Is that much or little :?

 

At least it will be funny to see how our super-accurate measures are off record once the real die area will be public

 

I don't know my coin dimension, but I know my choc chips And I'll second that (Unless they have smaller chock chips over there)

much

 

My rough estimate was 235.3-253.3 mm².

I couldn't really take the angle of the picture into account. Plus, my math could be wrong.

 

Emh..cough...Have you actually measured your chock chips?

 

If someone wants to make an estimate based on the chocolate chip picture, I think it would be better to use the teaspoon as a reference.

 

There are no pins on a chip. Instead there are pads to which gold wires are bonded. These in turn then go to the pins/balls of the package.

IIRC, the pads are usually located around the outside of the device.

 

cock chips? what the hell is that

 

So equivalent to more than 17x17mm - that's a big one.

 

David Wang posted a few tidbits @ Real World Tech

Die size in 90um: 206mm^2

Probably power constrained.

Cheers
Gubbi

 

Guess I forgot my choc chip are supersize

Pretty much expected die size for 90nm Cell.

 

That's pretty niffty info

 

Xbox2????

 

Ah well, my joke was shortlived...
I guess I also didn't pimp the 294 number enough in GFlops thread already

Anyway great info, thanks Gubbi.

 

Seems most of the specs is spot on in regard to estimates: 1 PE with 8APUs (or SPEs if you like) @ 4GHz. The PPE is simple and dumb (scalar), but fast (4GHz).

Very good peak FP performance with 256GFLOPS (unless you're Deadmeat)

The entire thing is power constrained at 50-70W @ 4GHz, so not much hope for doubling up on PEs (even in 65 nm).

Cheers
Gubbi