[geeks] Apple/Intel another (pre | per )ceptive article

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:22:44PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:56:11PM -0400, velociraptor wrote:
> > This was written/pub'd *last* July.  Some of it is way
> > off base, but some of it may pretty well explain why
> > Apple kept that "secret" x86 lab.  Surely Apple had
> > to know about cell by the time Jaguar was released.
> 
> IMHO, the Cell was WAY overhyped.  Good for games, vector processing, etc,
> but bad for general-purpose computing from what I can tell.
> 
> Too many people acted like Cell was the second coming of Christ.

Is it true that the main memory bandwidth is 25GByte/s ?  If so, it
would make a great firewall box for multiple GigE cards...

It ended up more like the Life of Brian, didn't it?

--Patrick