IBM's Radical Cell Processor

Rouslan Solomakhin writes "Forbes has recently posted an article on IBM's new revolutionary Cell processor. Cell is going to enable PS3 developers to create movie-quality games with blazing-speed graphics. Applications in other areas are also considered." From the article: "Some techies say PlayStation 3, which may debut by midyear and could end up in 100 million homes in five years, will usher in the next microchip revolution. The Sony system owes its prowess to a microprocessor called Cell, which was cooked up by chip wizards at IBM (with help from Sony and Toshiba) at a cost of $400 million over five years."

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Just learned something new

[SmallFurryCreature]

The PS3 is still going to have a GPU. This had me amazed as I thought the Cell itself was going to do the graphics as well. For the young ones, there was a time when your PC only had a single CPU that did all the hardwork and the video card was nothing more then a tiny piece of electronics that converted the digital image delivered by the cpu into an analog signal.

What the hell are they going to the 7 cores for? If the graphics are all going to be done by an external chip this leaves an awfull lot of power for doing the rest of the game. Super advanced and massive amounts of AI? Fear with a hundred soldiers? Sure sure you will still be limited to a dozen lights but who cares. It is the AI that has been sorely lacking in recent games.

Oh well, we will just have to see what Sony will deliver in the end. As for people commenting about Sony DRM rootkits. Only Windows users are affected. Amazing that you blame the guy shoving his dick up your ass, not the guy who strapped you down and spread your cheeks wide open for the last 20 years.

And now, full-on SlashMarketing

[Laptop Dancer]

How did this article make it to the front page? Slow news day? Direct payment from the technical marketing folks at IBM? I'm not trying to be a troll, but we've had plenty of /. articles on the cell, game consoles and content developers, but this.. wow. No new content, just pure hype for IBM. Why not just import directly from the cell team bogging sites at IBM?

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Re:You're right, it's a major headache

[sunbeam60]

Did you watch the talk bitch?