Comments on: PS3: What is the 8th SPE?

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Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:25:58 +0000

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Comment on PS3: What is the 8th SPE? by: herbert

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:30:58 +0000

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Comment on PS3: What is the 8th SPE? by: Steve

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:42:23 +0000

Apart from the evil DRM aspect, the story of increasing yield by allowing for redundancy in the processor is a nice approach: Saves throwing out a full die every time something doesn’t work. And, of course, allows overclocking/overprocessing potential by switching on an eigth, undamaged cell… an extra 12% processor performance without upping the mobo clock speed, anyone?!

Comment on PS3: What is the 8th SPE? by: gary

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:55:29 +0000

Indeed. In fact there’s no real reason for the PS3 to reserve an entire cell to do DRM stuff. My guess is that when developing for the cell processor, one would be abstracted from the details of which cell is doing what. I’d think DRM would run pretty much like any other process, and wouldn’t much care where it was running.

Comment on PS3: What is the 8th SPE? by: Steve Hobdell

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:53:04 +0000

What’s to stop Sony from using one of the other 7 cells for DRM?
And, as the PS3 has an HDMI output, it WILL implement DRM, in the form of High-Def Content Protection (HDCP) - in the US, at least; and if the FCC and MPAA get their way…