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Anhar Miah May 30th, 2005 10:05 AM

Sony's Cell Workstation [16 TeraFlops!!!]
 
I know this may be old news to some, but in any event this is still exciting news.

Sony (with IBM) plan on using their Cell technology (as used in Playstation 3) for use in a Workstation (PC).

The market Sony indents to target is "content creation" i.e film makers, games makers etc..

If they (Sony and IBM) can produce the power they are claiming (16 teraflops!!!) then at least in theory this could be the only box you need to do everything (from HD uncompressed editing to, SFX, CGI, etc...)

Joe Carney May 30th, 2005 05:25 PM

It's secret name will be 'MacIntosh', sshhhh, don't tell anybody.

K. Forman May 30th, 2005 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joe Carney
It's secret name will be 'MacIntosh', sshhhh, don't tell anybody.

Naaaah.... Somebody already tried that once, and they never got it right ;)

Radek Svoboda May 31st, 2005 01:57 AM

The Sony guy Katagari that in charge of Playstation repetedly said Intel, when asked who they see as competition. No one believed. Maybe he is right.

Radek

Dylan Couper June 2nd, 2005 05:38 PM

Why is it the names "cell" and "workstation" go so well together.... sigh...

Lawrence Bansbach June 6th, 2005 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anhar Miah
If they (Sony and IBM) can produce the power they are claiming (16 teraflops!!!) . . .

Actually, including the Cell processor, the PowerPC-based CPU, and the inVidia-based GPU, the theoretical maximum FP rating of the system is 2 TFLOPs.


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