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:[The article]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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