A Change For Possible PS4 Cell Chip

[Ascended_Saiyan]

I know we all heard about the "Cell 3" with 32 SPEs and 2 PPEs. Apparently, that has changed. The new possible chip design is 32 SPEs and 4 PPEs (page 10).

Here are some highlights:

􀂃 100% backward compatible
􀂃 Performance on PPE significantly better
􀂃 Performance per SPE equal or better
– Significantly better on applications that benefit from new instructions
􀂃 Better inter-SPE latency
􀂃 More on-chip memory
􀂃 Better main memory latency and bandwidth

They are aiming for 1 TeraFLOPS performance from that chip! Just as a reference, the Cell in the PS3 is capable of 204 GigaFLOPS. This is projected for 2010/2011. 2011 is probably when we will see the PS4. I doubt this is a coincidence.