Cell Chip Details Unveiled

Boy, it seems like that with each passing day we get just a little bit more information in regards to that almost infamous Cell Processor.

Documentation describing the technical details of the promising Cell processor have been released by partners IBM (NYSE: IBM - news), Sony (NYSE: SNE - news) and Toshiba (PNK: TOSBF.BK), who hope to generate buzz among developers.

Cell chips, which will power the next-generation Sony PlayStation 3 console, are designed to deliver supercomputer-grade processing power to digital-entertainment hardware.

Beyond entertainment computing, the Cell chip will offer native support for multiple systems, including Linux and consumer-electronics applications. The three partners project that a Cell-based workstation will reach a processing-performance level of 16 teraflops — or 16 trillion calculations per second. [Read the rest]