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Re:AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong ... by dbspin on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:32PM (#16276226)
Three... They were also investing heavily in the Cell architecture, codeveloped with IBM and Toshiba. That one just didn't pan out.
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Re:AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong ... by kuschku on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @11:49PM (#16279698)
well, it kinda - just not in the way they expected.

The changes game developers had to make to handle cell allowed them later on to support multicore CPUs and GPGPU much easier.

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