IBM’s radical Cell processor, to debut in Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3), could reshape entertainment and spark the next hi-tech boom, says Forbes.Com. Sony’s PS3 game console performs 2 trillion calculations per second. This means millions of homes will soon sport a supercomputer with the kind of power once reserved for seismic exploration and nuclear-weapons design to enable programmers to create videogames that look as realistic as film.
The report says some techies predict PS3 will usher in the next microchip revolution. The Sony system owes its computing power to a microprocessor called Cell, which runs at least 10 times as fast as Intel’s most powerful Pentium.
January 17, 2006 at 3:58 am
Great Blog Man! Well, we’ll have to wait and watch and if the PS3 is 200 bucks more than the Xbox, then I’ll have to cancel my plans for it.
~ CC