Cell Processors Coming soon

[mubu]

In case anyone has not seen the new cell processor technology which will revolutionize the whole computer industry thanks to sony in the near future. Check out this video which explains the new capabilities of cell architecture which made its first appearance in the new playstation 3 console.....

youtube.com/watch?v=epq7Oc3nmjM

also a video showing off sonys blueray technology

youtube.com/watch?v=SS9eW6Zm_cA&mode=related&search=
and
youtube.com/watch?v=54PYA2eqqZA&mode=related&search=

[cathedralmaster]

It honestly doesn't sound that revolutionary - correct me if I'm wrong but the video make it look like they've just taken the concept of parallel processors and vastly increased their effeciency by placing them all on one chip rather than having them as seperate CPUs.

[mubu]

For the technically savy this is a lot more explanitory

www.blachford.info/computer/Cell/Cell1_v2.html

Cell is a revolution, a completely new microprocessor architecture which, while it may take some time to get used to, promises a vast performance boost over today’s systems. GPUs can already run 10 times faster than desktop CPUs, Cell will not only bring similar performance but will do so for more applications and it’ll be easier to program

quote taken from the conclusion page.

[mubu]

Another great video of an IBM presentation of cell technology

youtube.com/watch?v=lr-R4bUZIQw&mode=related&search=

[arielt]

*sighs and shakes his head* Revolutionary my ass, the industry just finally got off its serial kick and is finally working in parallel like they should have started out... Er, sorry, old wounds.

[illandous]

Cell Processors are the "answer" to the problem of running out of space on a molecular level on the new CPU cores. (Unless stacking cores ontop of each other is an "answer")

MY opinion..

The next big thing to really happen will be hard drives. In 5 -10 years I hope that the only moving part in my system will be fan's as we develop a more stable flash memory. Cd's and Dvd's will still have to spin I suppose.

I suppose the solid bet is that IBM will inovate in this area the most. As they have been the leaders in that space forever.