Path to understanding Cell continues...

I've been doing tons of research on Cell these past few days, and I'm finally getting somewhere beyond what's been talked about since ISSCC. There are still big gaps that aren't being filled, such as the programming model for Cell, but I get the impression that I'm going to have to wait for the developer's guide to Cell before I can get my hands on that type of information.

In terms of the architecture, implementation and potential uses for it, I've got a number of theories that I'll be putting into article form hopefully before the end of next week. I've been lucky enough to have some very important and knowledgeable industry folks help me (anonymously of course) with a few theories on the architecture which should make the piece even more interesting.

In other news, my Mac HTPC article is basically done, I'm just polishing up a bit on iMovie HD (I had no where else to put it, and I promised I'd provide some first-hand user comments) and then I've got a handful of images to edit up. After that article is done with, the next Mac piece will be a G5/mini/PowerBook memory roundup, mostly looking at things from a compatibility and price standpoint as there's no real Mac memory overclocking potential out there :) I'm hoping this article will serve as a guide to give people options for memory upgrades other than Apple, especially considering that other than the new PowerBooks, all base Macs come with no more than 256MB of memory.

On the PC side of things, Part II of Johan's Quest for More Processing Power series should be published before the end of the month. We've also got an article on AMD's NUMA architecture, some new Intel workstation and desktop processors, as well as the first part of a long awaited SFF roundup coming before the end of this month.