Cell is an architecture for a family of chips, including Cell Broadband, that can easily process massive amounts of data. At this point we don't know all of the applications for Cell, and we want people to work with us to find additional uses. |
We envision that there will always be a role for hand optimization in critical areas of a design. But we believe that the single-source compiler may be able to do a great deal of the initial work, leaving for the designers only hand-tweaking, rather than reorganization of the whole code set. |