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Re: thoughts on Cell? IBM seems to think they can take 15% of marketshare from INTEL with that one

There are very few PC applications that can take advantage of a processor like Cell. Most apps are single threaded, and it's hard enough to create additional threads for multithreaded or multicore processors. Cell designs are supposed to implement hundreds of processing elements, and even a well trained emulator won't help it to perform well under Windows, or even MacOS if IBM goes that route.

I think IBM's 15% MSS figure is complete crap. They will not get 1%, or even 0.1%, IMO.