Beginning 2000 (Emotion Engine 2)
-Named PowerCore.
-Various Cores with MIPS architecture
-VLIW architecture
-Perhaphs 667Mhz of clock speed.
2001:
-IBM enters in the design
-VLIW cores evolves to SPE (SIMD with Local Store)
-Cell architecture is defined
-Power4 Core (Power4 has 2 cores) at 1.4 Ghz.
2003:
-Power4 1.4 Ghz changed to PowerPC 970 2Ghz.
-IBM promises to Microsoft, Apple, Sony and Toshiba the creation of a 970 at 3Ghz.
2004:
-IBM cannot put the 970 at 3Ghz and they create the PPE. PPE is 970 but without OOO (reducing the number of instructions from 5 to 2) but adding Multithreading and Virtualization.
-Cell Prototype is finished
2005:
-IBM adds VMX-128 in the PPE.
-Cell is released to the market in the form of Blade Servers for the US Army and Workstation for Mercury (made for medical application).
-Named PowerCore.
-Various Cores with MIPS architecture
-VLIW architecture
-Perhaphs 667Mhz of clock speed.
2001:
-IBM enters in the design
-VLIW cores evolves to SPE (SIMD with Local Store)
-Cell architecture is defined
-Power4 Core (Power4 has 2 cores) at 1.4 Ghz.
2003:
-Power4 1.4 Ghz changed to PowerPC 970 2Ghz.
-IBM promises to Microsoft, Apple, Sony and Toshiba the creation of a 970 at 3Ghz.
2004:
-IBM cannot put the 970 at 3Ghz and they create the PPE. PPE is 970 but without OOO (reducing the number of instructions from 5 to 2) but adding Multithreading and Virtualization.
-Cell Prototype is finished
2005:
-IBM adds VMX-128 in the PPE.
-Cell is released to the market in the form of Blade Servers for the US Army and Workstation for Mercury (made for medical application).