Cell is disruptive technology

Ed Stroligo wrote for overclockers.com his thoughts about AMD’s Fred Weber interview with Anandtech. Following the snippets below, is a link to Mr. Stroligo’s editorial – interesting indeed.

Cell is not a competing technology. It's a disruptive technology meant to change the paradigm of what a typical computer is supposed to be. Eventually, we'll have big Cells, little Cells, many Cells, one Cell, providing a flexible framework in which

1) enough computing power gets delivered for the purposes of the (increasingly specialized) device and

2) everything from DVD players to workstations have the same core computing standards.

The real battle isn't really about hardware specifications; it's about what computers are going to be like in the future. Maybe the best analogy for this is: Will they stay like PC, or become more like iPods?

This battle won't be a quick fight. Unless the Cell people really drop the ball, this war will last years and years. Remember that the Cell folks have nothing to lose. They have a solid foundation in the gaming station market, and if they don't come up with a PC killer the first time around, well, there's always versions 2.0 and 3.0 after that. The folks at Microsoft can certainly tell you that you don't have to get it right the first time to eventually succeed.

Read Mr. Stroligo’s thoughts here.