Article: ISSCC 2008 Cell Processor Update
By: anonymous (none.delete@this.nowhere.org), February 29, 2008 1:16 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
av (noreply@ppcnux.de) on 2/26/08 wrote:
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>But another question - why is 40 % of 110 Watt (see page 14 at http://www.power.org/resources/devcorner/cellcorner/hpcspe.pdf
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>all of a sudden "less than 20 watts"?!
That confused me as well. The 110 Watts @ 90nm @ 3.2 GHz seems reasonable. If you look at Fig. 1 of Davids article and take a close look at the 3.2 GHz data point you can figure that in 45nm it consumes about 47Watt at 3.2 GHz.
Less than 20Watts must refer to a lower frequency.
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>But another question - why is 40 % of 110 Watt (see page 14 at http://www.power.org/resources/devcorner/cellcorner/hpcspe.pdf
>)
>all of a sudden "less than 20 watts"?!
That confused me as well. The 110 Watts @ 90nm @ 3.2 GHz seems reasonable. If you look at Fig. 1 of Davids article and take a close look at the 3.2 GHz data point you can figure that in 45nm it consumes about 47Watt at 3.2 GHz.
Less than 20Watts must refer to a lower frequency.
