Sony has developed a prototype computer board based on the Cell processor, which it plans to show at the San Diego SIGGRAPH conference.
The Cell is the product of a joint development project by IBM, Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI) and Toshiba. Each chip contains a main processor and eight sub-processors to deliver around 230Gflops (floating point operations per second) of power.
The Computing Board prototype which Sony plans to show, combines the Cell Broadband Engine microprocessor and RSX graphics processor. According the Japanese giant, this pairing results in a high-power computing platform that goes beyond the power of the Cell chip alone.
Sony has announced that it plans to put on a number of demonstrations including real-time processing of ‘4K images’, which are digital cinema pictures with a resolution of four times that of HDTV, computer graphics rendering and a multi-threaded physics simulation. Could this lead to the super computer of the future?
It doesn’t end there however, as Sony and Toshiba are currently also working on more powerful versions of the chip for use in professional-class computers and smaller, low-power versions for use in consumer electronics devices beyond the PS3. Exciting stuff as long as the suing comes to an end…
NOW TELL ME THIS
why in the fuck didnt they just develop that shit for the PS3 in the first place?
oh well higher definition tvs?
the living room take over continues!
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