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Last edited by tomazkid on 04-Jan-2010 at 05:05 PM.
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CPU thoughts
So its hinted to not be any particular number of cores. Hmmm.
Reprogrammable in an FPGA? Neat idea, but they claim this to be a performance machine, and I don't consider FPGA implementation to be high-performance capable. My XE G4 would do better.
CPU chip socket? What PowerPC does that anymore, they're all BGA. And how many various SOC PPCs have similar pinouts to share a socket?
Cell? Ben is said to like it, and it's definition allows varying number of SPE units. (Requires one G5 PPC if I recall) But I don't think of Cell as very low-power, and filling up SPEs to try and achieve 20W power consumption seems like an easy task. Cell is said to require specialty memory, is that available in convenient memory modules for thems memory slots?
Modular? (accelerator-alike?) Interesting, and definitely how I'd do it. There's plenty of module standards out there with PPCs on them. Could allow varying CPU cores based on owner choice. I'm only well read on one module standard though, and I'd include a SB600 on this kind of module itself, not on the motherboard as I'm guessing happened here. Could explain the CPU area screw holes as an alternative to heatsink mount theory. I've briefly discussed with Ben, Hans-Joerg, and one or two others in the past my module ideology, I'd be happy like crazy if they found someone with more time than me to do something with it. :)
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