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First look at PlayStation 3 chip

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iGav

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Sony, IBM and Toshiba have released limited data about the so-called Cell chip that will be able to carry out trillions of calculations per second.

The chip will be made of several different processing cores that work on tasks together.

The three firms claim that the Cell chip will be up to 10 times more powerful than existing processors.

When put inside powerful computer servers, the Cell consortium expects it to be capable of handling 16 trillion floating point operations, or calculations, every second.
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:D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4051983.stm
 
Ken Kutaragi said:
Current PC architecture is nearing its limits
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by the time PS3 is out though - there should be huge strides in PC hardware. that - and i feel xbox 2 is probably going to trump PS3 because of its earlier release. not that i want that to happen. i'm hoping PS3 will be backwards compatible and really smoke with online play. guess we'll have to wait till 2006... and after that i guess we can wait for longhorn :confused:
 
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In other news, the PS3 shipping has been delayed X months thanks to short supplys of IBM's Cell chip.

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Cool.

Seem's like dual/multi core is the way to go nowadays. I wonder how much tech the new chip will share with IBM's other processors (i.e. POWER series).
 
iGAV, I'm sooooo sorry, but...

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/99274/
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