Well it's not that it was made for a console, but that it's a much different CPU design, if you are writing software to take advantage of the Cell CPU it's going to take a bit of work to get it working on an i7, and the performance difference between the 2 is quite large depending on what tasks you are giving the cpu, x86 CPUs being designed for general purpose, while the Cell was designed for IBM's high end servers, the binned ones are sold off to Sony for the PS3. Really no different from what AMD does with their current cpus, they 're only making the quads and sending the ones with dud cores to be triple, dual or single core cpus depending on how many cores work properly.
I'd have tu guess that the difference between the current console CPUs and the current x86 CPUs is even larger now then the difference between the old PowerPC CPUs that Apple used to use.
I'd have tu guess that the difference between the current console CPUs and the current x86 CPUs is even larger now then the difference between the old PowerPC CPUs that Apple used to use.
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