Let the hype begin. Sony set loose the PR marketing gorilla today when they showed off their prototype “Cell” processor (really a nine core, 64-bit PowerPC chip) at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. The chip, which was co-developed with IBM and Toshiba, is said to perform miracles like parting the sea and making water turn into blood... ok, just kidding. The developers claim that the chip provides as much as 10 times better performance in handling entertainment and rich-media applications than current PC processors, and will be “operating system neutral,” meaning it can run one or multiple operating systems simultaneously from various distributors.February 8, 2005
Sony, Toshiba and IBM (STI Group) Unveil Cell Processor
Let the hype begin. Sony set loose the PR marketing gorilla today when they showed off their prototype “Cell” processor (really a nine core, 64-bit PowerPC chip) at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. The chip, which was co-developed with IBM and Toshiba, is said to perform miracles like parting the sea and making water turn into blood... ok, just kidding. The developers claim that the chip provides as much as 10 times better performance in handling entertainment and rich-media applications than current PC processors, and will be “operating system neutral,” meaning it can run one or multiple operating systems simultaneously from various distributors.
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