Playstation 3 CPU Almost Finished?

dnxthx writes "According to this ZDNet article the design of the Playstation 3 chip is nearly complete. The PS3 chip will have near "supercomputer capabilities" --- including 1 TFLOP. Reportedly, this chip is being engineered with Linux in mind."

Comments

Hrm..

[qurob]

The PS3 chip will have near supercomputer capabilities --- including 1 TFLOP.

Wasn't the old PS2 a supercomputer, and there were export rules on it?

Saddam was rumored to buy some to control missles or something?

Thats it?

[bytor4232]

By the time 2005 comes around, everyone will have a Terraflop of processing power in their toaster. Comon Sony, cant you do better than that?

Re:Thats it?

[Lord_Slepnir]

Have you played the new Unreal 2003 demo yet? People already have toasters in their computers, so computers in their toasters isn't that far off.

You saw it here first: The FIRST TOASTER VIRUS

if(Toast_Present == 1)
{
Turn_On_Coils();
While(Toast.OnFire() = 0)
{
if(Lever.Manual_Eject() == 1)Lever.Jam();
if(Power.Unplug() == 1)Power.Source = reserve_battery;
}
Eject_Flaming_Toast_At_User();
}

lara?

[edrugtrader]

until they can get a 3D lara to give me a lap-dance, i'm not impressed.

Re:lara?

[IvyMike]

until they can get a 3D lara to give me a lap-dance, i'm not impressed.

Now there's an interesting tie-in with the "force feedback controllers" article.

Must be a good thing

[JohnCC]

A large international company trusted by millions can only be a good thing for the linux community...

Like tricorders!

[Winterblink]

You just connect a bunch of them together and you can do anything! Realign warp fields, degauss tachyon emitters, and render fighting games with big bouncy breasted women. Now THAT's a good use of a teraflop or two -- accurate breast bounce.

Re:Cell ??

[lugonn]

...and if you put it near an Xbox or Gamecube, it will absorb them to become Perfect Cell.

"I don't see the problem. When the reporters come, I'll just destroy them!"

Three words:

[PD]

"Enron Linux Distribution"

Re:1 TFLOP?

[WWWWolf]

So, PS3 will be as fast as 50,000 GeForce 4's running in parallel?

And people will be plugging this thing to a TELEVISION?

O tempora, o mores...

I don't think the news writers worked on this

[sgtsanity]

For example:

While the processor's design is still under wraps, the companies say Cell's capabilities will allow it to deliver one trillion calculations per second (teraflop) or more of floating-point calculations. It will have the ability to do north of 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second,

This was obviously from Zdnet's Division of Redundancy Division. It happens to be listed twice on the organizational chart.

Re:A terraflop?

[guttentag]

You misunderstood. A "terraflop" is a finishing combo in a top secret street fighter game that will be released with the PS3. This is different from the "teraflop" which refers to floating point ops.

Re:export controls?

[Lord_Slepnir]

create a crude missile guidance system.

Actually, the atari 2600 had this. It was called missile commander i do believe.

Re:If you think the PS2 architecture is weird

[Phil Wilkins]

Testify brother Atari, testify!

Now let me hear it from the vector display programmers out there... Someone give my Tempest brother some love!