11th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA'05)
Power Efficient Processor Architecture and The Cell Processor
San Francisco, California
February 12-February 16
ISBN: 0-7695-2275-0
This paper provides a background and rationale for some of the architecture and design decisions in the Cell processor, a processor optimized for compute-intensive and broadband rich media applications, jointly developed by Sony Group, Toshiba, and IBM.