Holy Crap. That's what I said when reading these specs.
Sony, IBM and Toshiba today announced some of the details of the Cell processor that they are all developing in collaboration. The PS3 will be the first application of this new smoker.
Now I don't know what all of this means, but I do know that big numbers are usually good and that these are some pretty big numbers:
- The processor operates at greater than 4GHZ.
- The processor is capable of 256GFLOPS. What that means is that the processor can handle 256 billion floating-point operations per second. That's billion with a "b" and per second as in, well per second. The Pentium 4 maxxed out these days is around 20 billion, to put this in perspective.
- They're 234 million transitors on the little chip, pictured above between the push pins.
- The processors are coming off the assembly line for testing. In other words, they're real.
NVIDIA is developing the graphic chip for the new PS3, and we can only hope that it is being built as aggressively as the CPU.
Amazing stuff. Read about it here on IGN. Read a more boring version (yet more detailed) of the same story here on ABC News.
-aB
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Wired has posted another story on the Cell chip. Read it here.
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