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    Sony and IBM Cell technology emerges

    It'll probably be in the next games console you buy and it'll probably be in a lot more than that if Sony and IBM have their way. I am of course referring to the Cell chip. From The Inquirer:
    According to papers to be presented at the ISSCC, the initial Cell chip has a single processing unit that can pass computing tasks out to as many as 8 other processors. Thus, working in tandem, it can process up to 10 sequences of instructions simultaneously. This compares well with rival Intel x86 architectures, which can process just two, according the conference paper.
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    there's a whole lot of hype surrounding Cell, and how it's as powerful as 100 supercomputers or similar crap.

    i remember the same rhetoric when the Emotion Engine in the ps2 was being discussed

    in the end, sony are great at hype, but a little lacking in backing it up

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    The Register has a good article on this

    http://www.theregister.com/2005/02/0...ysis_part_two/

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