PS3 Cell Processor

[Mike AkA Don]

http://ps2.gamespy.com/articles/585/585956p1.html

Read it and be joyous... This is going to revolutionize CPU technology... Amazing...

[broken]

It looks like an amazing thing! The only problem is the PS3 is getting it first.

[geekerati]

PlayStation 3 set to make its debut ahead of E3
Feb.9,2005

Confirmation of pre-E3 showing adds fuel to March rumours - but could mean mid-May


Sony's next-generation home console will be revealed to the world before the E3 show in Los Angeles this May, representatives of the company have confirmed, with rumours strongly hinting at a late March unveiling.

In the wake of the official public debut of the Cell microprocessor which will power the console earlier this week, speculation has been rife about Sony's plans for revealing more precise details of the platform itself.

Now representatives of SCEA have confirmed to US website GameSpot that the company "will have an event to premiere [its] next-generation system" ahead of the E3 show in three months time.

While Sony has revealed previously that the console will definitely be at E3 in some form, it's been widely rumoured that the unveiling would come before then - with a Sony roadmap from last year suggesting that it would come near the end of the firm's financial year in late March.

That timescale still seems very possible - the company has revealed that the unveiling will not be at GDC next month, but a special Tokyo event to show off the console's specifications in late March would be in keeping with the firm's past approach on such announcements.

However, it's important to note that a pre-E3 event to premiere the system could mean just that - since Sony, along with rival platform holders Nintendo and Microsoft, traditionally holds an event in Los Angeles in the days before E3, and used this event to premiere the PlayStation Portable.

Both Microsoft and Nintendo are expected to make announcements concerning their next-generation plans at E3.

Cell Microprocessor

The CELL Microprocessor for PlayStation 3 at a Glance

CELL... bringing supercomputer power to everyday life with latest technology optimized for compute-intensive and broadband rich media applications.

]SUMMARY:

Cell is a breakthrough architectural design - featuring 8 Synergistic Processing Units (SPU) with Power-based core, with top clock speeds exceeding 4 GHz (as measured during initial laboratory testing) .
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Cell is OS neutral - supporting multiple operating systems simultaneously

Cell is a multicore chip comprising 8 SPUs and a 64-bit Power processor core capable of massive floating point processing

Special circuit techniques, rules for modularity and reuse, customized clocking structures, and unique power and thermalmanagement concepts were applied to optimize the design

CELL is a Multi-Core Architecture


Contains 8 SPUs each containing a 128 entry 128-bit register file and 256KB Local Store

Contains 64-bit Power ArchitectureTM with VMX that is a dual thread SMT design-views system memory as a 10-way coherent threaded machine

2.5MB of on Chip memory (512KB L2 and 8 * 256KB)

234 million transistors

Prototype die size of 221mm2

Fabricated with 90nanometer (nm) SOI process technology

Cell is a modular architecture and floating point calculation capabilities can be adjusted by increasing or reducing the number of SPUs

CELL is a Broadband Architecture

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