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Will Microsoft trump CELL by using Proximity Communication in XB720 CPU?
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=40187
"Sun Microsystems developed Proximity Communication and has an effort underway known as "Project Hero". "Sun has 100 engineers working on "Project Hero", developing a flat low-latency memory architecture, with mostly or fully asynchronous processors, "Proximity Communication" for ultra-fast inter-chip communication and an alternative to cache coherency. They don't consider the core design to be that important, but it may be based on Niagara's very simple 1 instruction per cycle core, which would be much easier to implement in asynchronous logic. They are also working on using interval arithmetic to give more meaningful results, and a programming model where the system does all the (low-level) optimisation." http://www.aceshardware.com/read_news.jsp?id=75000448 "Microsoft has a lot of ex-Sun engineers and it is speculating Microsoft is taking on a much more hands-on approach with their next CPU." "For more than two decades, Microsoft's software and Intel's processors were so wedded that the pairing came to be known as Wintel. But as that computing era wanes, Microsoft is turning to a new source of chip design: its own labs. The design effort will initially be split between research labs at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., and its Silicon Valley campus here. Tentatively named the Computer Architecture Group, the project underscores sweeping changes in the industry." http://tinyurl.com/2ky96u |
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