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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i guess

[akhomerun]

i guess this is why one core in intel's new laptop chips are twice as fast as IBM's current chips at the same clock speed. And, you know, since IBM had trouble supplying Apple's 3% marketshare PC market, they are going to have a great time supplying enough chips to go into the PS3, the successor to the console that took 70% of the home console marketshare and sold, I dunno, what is it, 40-50 million units? I honestly don't remember, but I'm pretty sure total PS sales including the PSOne have surpassed 100 million.

I don't see how IBM can just pull Cell technology out of its ass and expect us to believe that the PS3 is going to make a huge difference in graphics compared to the Xbox 360. Their chips are made by the same company, and anyone who believes this PR hype should seriously consider looking up because there's gullible written on the ceiling.

Not only that, but the only way you'll see a difference is if you are using the most expensive 1080p television availible. If you own an Xbox 360 with a standard definition TV, you already know that it looks like Xbox 1.5.

Re:IBM really needs to prove themselves

[xtracto]

lol
so the folder "lalala" on your desktop is the porn folder, isn't it?

I agree