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07 Jun 2008
AMD Promotes Accelerators; Criticizes Cell
An AMD fellow presented to Stanford, promoting a vision of co-processor accelerators driven by a general-purpose core (which would also handle legacy and single-threaded tasks). However, although this is the basic design of the PowerPC-based Cell processor, he thinks an AMD x86 core surrounded by AMD/ATI graphics processing units (GPUs) is a better architecture.
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