The CELL (PS3 chip) will be reveladed today.See first pics.

**Johnny** · 02-07-2005

The CELLl, that will equip the Playstation 3, will probably be the biggest attraction on a Technology conference that happens today in San Francisco. The chip developed by Sony, IBM and Toshiba, will be shown to the public for the first time.

The expectation of the specialists is that the CELL will be a revolution on microprocessors. It's processing power is 10 times faster than the actual chips generation, and according to Sony, will aproximate the quality of the graphics in games to the special effects on movies.

News taken from here: (in portuguese) http://outerspace.terra.com.br/inter...d_noticia=1448

AntiPasta · 02-07-2005

Wow, I never figured it would be that small, considering the amount of logic they threw in. And it's a very interesting design, imho.

**Fonzie** · 02-07-2005

will aproximate the quality of the graphics in games to the special effects on movies.

Hahaha.
Just to keep in mind that a decent movie effect (like jurasic park) not require 10*3ghz cpu to do it in real time but a (at least) 1000*3ghz cpu.
I can't bear to see this sort of "commercial" wrong announcements that means nothing.

Exept that, seems a cool new technology... Impressive :smt023

**Paulo** · 02-07-2005

I think i read somewhere they are are reaching a whole 4ghz... in initial testing...

**cahaz** · 02-07-2005

Originally Posted by Johnny

and according to Sony, will aproximate the quality of the graphics in games to the special effects on movies.

didn't they said the same thing for the ps2? :smt042

...funny but true.

**Taemos** · 02-07-2005

Originally Posted by cahaz

Originally Posted by Johnny

and according to Sony, will aproximate the quality of the graphics in games to the special effects on movies.

didn't they said the same thing for the ps2? :smt042

...funny but true.

Nintendo said it with the Ultra 64. I wouldn't put too much stock in Sony's claims until I see screenshots. It is rather impressive how they got it that small, however (I know shit about processors, so that'll probably end up sounding stupid :-) ).

**f_bohmann** · 02-07-2005

the hardware design is typical for sony. nearly as hard to program as an average piece of concrete or rock. but i am really looking forward to getting my hands on it... sounds like a lot of "fun" if you are in an SM state of mind or something.

in reality on the one hand it will be quite hard to master, but on the other one it will have LOTS of power and still be cheap to produce, which is good.

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AntiPasta · 02-07-2005

Well that isnt stupid at all... mind you this processor (CPU is not really the right word) actually contains 8 cores, connected with some bitchin' fast interconnect, plus embedded memory (how much per core I dont remember, I think it was 128kbyte). That is quite amazing, especially if Paulo's claims about speed and power dissipation are right.

**Taemos** · 02-07-2005

Ah, thanks. I feel slightly smarter now :-).

Great avatar, by the way :smt043 .

**madhatter256** · 02-07-2005

Originally Posted by Johnny

It's processing power is 10 times faster than the actual chips generation, and according to Sony, will aproximate the quality of the graphics in games to the special effects on movies.

News taken from here: (in portuguese) http://outerspace.terra.com.br/inter...d_noticia=1448

Do they mean the quality found in movies like Toy Story or Shrek2? Here we go again.

**madhatter256** · 02-07-2005

Melts in your mouth, not in your hand. :smt043

MD · 02-07-2005

What will last longer, the PS3 on day of US release or those chocolate drops in a room full of hungry 5 year olds?

Is it really a chip, loooks like a piece of blue plastic to me, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are doing the vapourware early this year...

**Calpis** · 02-07-2005

Very nice! Yay, SMD^3 form factor now... when will it end?! No more HW mods... :\

**Mr. Casual** · 02-07-2005

Originally Posted by madhatter256

Originally Posted by Johnny

It's processing power is 10 times faster than the actual chips generation, and according to Sony, will aproximate the quality of the graphics in games to the special effects on movies.

News taken from here: (in portuguese) http://outerspace.terra.com.br/inter...d_noticia=1448

Do they mean the quality found in movies like Toy Story or Shrek2? Here we go again.

What about games with graphics like FF the spirits within, or FF7 Advent children? :smt033

gadget · 02-07-2005

Originally Posted by Mr. Casual

What about games with graphics like FF the spirits within, or FF7 Advent children? :smt033

It's still going to take a large group of very talented developers to get something like FF spirits out of the system. I'm just hoping that all that power isn't going to be wasted on more crappy movie license titles, unfortunately, they sell. I'm counting on Namco, Konami and Square-Enix to really make the PS3 shine.

One of the stories mentioned a prototype workstation based on the cell processor, anyone seen any pics of this? I remember they build a rendering workstation with parallel Emotion Engine chips back when the ps2 was being announced and nothing ever came of that one.

**zappenduster** · 02-07-2005

Originally Posted by Fonzie

will aproximate the quality of the graphics in games to the special effects on movies.

Hahaha.
Just to keep in mind that a decent movie effect (like jurasic park) not require 10*3ghz cpu to do it in real time but a (at least) 1000*3ghz cpu.
I can't bear to see this sort of "commercial" wrong announcements that means nothing.

Exept that, seems a cool new technology... Impressive :smt023

uhm when jurassic park was created they used sgi systems in a renderfarm and sgi was and if iam not wrong not is even today not able to produce 3ghz cpus (for jp i think they were around 200-300mhz max.)
but sgi is working with mips technology which was at that time (early 90s) superiour against the normal x86 pcs, but they lost track and today they are not really interested into normal workstations and more concentrating to huge projects for military or car industry

**ASSEMbler** · 02-07-2005

With the tiny amount of memory I doubt it'll do much ..

They really need to put 256 or 512 into the ps3

**madhatter256** · 02-07-2005

Originally Posted by assembler

With the tiny amount of memory I doubt it'll do much ..

They really need to put 256 or 512 into the ps3

megabytes(ram) or kilobytes(cache)?

**Mr. Casual** · 02-08-2005

Originally Posted by gadget

Originally Posted by Johnny

What about games with graphics like FF the spirits within, or FF7 Advent children? :smt033

It's still going to take a large group of very talented developers to get something like FF spirits out of the system. I'm just hoping that all that power isn't going to be wasted on more crappy movie license titles, unfortunately, they sell. I'm counting on Namco, Konami and Square-Enix to really make the PS3 shine.

One of the stories mentioned a prototype workstation based on the cell processor, anyone seen any pics of this? I remember they build a rendering workstation with parallel Emotion Engine chips back when the ps2 was being announced and nothing ever came of that one.

Johnny Didnt post that. :smt033

ryangassxx · 02-08-2005

these little chips are going to revolutionize electronic devices.. Those things are 10x more powerfull than the fastest pentium 4, and they dont even get hot, therefore they dont require massive cooling contraptions.. Soon, almost every electronic device will use a cell processor.. Computer processors will become irrelevant. And as tome goes on and they become cheaper to manufacture, even everyday alarmclocks and wrist watches will have them.