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Originally Posted by DrGruv
my point is.. I can't see the other chips being less than $100 and containing 4 cores! Why wouldn't apple use these chips is really my question?
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No, I can't see whatever is next in the 970 lineage being less than $100 either.
As to your question, we will know a lot more soon; there is a presentation planned (for February iirc) which will release a number of Cell's secrets.
Also, once IBM's Cell workstations start to ship - again, relatively soon if reports are correct - we will learn more about the chip's suitability for non-console purposes, and thus about about any limitations it might have wrt being incorporated into Macs.