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batesie Posts: > 500

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The highly anticipated microchip that will power the Sony PlayStation 3 video game system will be described in detail for the first time by its developers, IBM, Sony and Toshiba.

Dubbed a "supercomputer on a chip," the Cell microprocessor has until now been long on ambition but short on specifics. At a technical conference here, the three electronics giants say they plan to disclose the inner workings of the chip, which is designed to run portable electronics, home entertainment devices and powerful computers.

Full story below...
http://www.reuters.co.uk/news[....]e=internetNews&storyID=7553159
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Posted: 2005-02-07 13:58:19
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shyam335 Posts: > 500

can it live the hype

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Posted: 2005-02-07 18:17:20
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batesie Posts: > 500

Processor Specs....

Faster than 4 GHz
256 billion calculations per second
2.5MB of on-chip memory
Able to shuttle data to and from off-chip memory at speeds up to 100 gigabytes per second,
234 million transistor

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Posted: 2005-02-08 14:22:02
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gelfen Posts: > 500

further information here
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Posted: 2005-02-08 23:38:50
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parsnip Posts: 386

Lol its powerful This message was posted from a WAP device
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Posted: 2005-02-08 23:41:30
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Melik Posts: 249

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On 2005-02-08 23:41:30, [T2K]Nitro wrote:
Lol its powerful

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VERY powerfull
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Posted: 2005-02-09 00:04:47
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Davo_169 Posts: > 500

seriousely how does something soo small do all that aye...its amazing
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Posted: 2005-02-09 09:45:47
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neonismo Posts: 254

It's not the speed thats important, its the architecture of the chip. Its massively parallel from the ground up, and has huge bandwidth. This makes chewing thru "multimedia" a task that it will excell at. This message was posted from a K700i
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Posted: 2005-02-09 09:55:34
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shyam335 Posts: > 500

i think if anyone want to actually use 'cell' , they will have to pay a lot to rambus alone for the xdr

, and further its almost an year away from any cell products .
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Posted: 2005-02-09 18:06:46
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gelfen Posts: > 500

actually it's kinda disappointing given all the marketing hype it has recieved:

• Cell can process 256 billion calculations per second (256 gigaflops), falling a wee bit short of marketing hyperbole calling it a "supercomputer on a chip." The slowest machine on the current list of the Top 500 supercomputers can do 851 gigaflops.

from this article at ZDNet Australia

and previously posted in the existing Playstation 3 thread.

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