The Cell

For the past three years, Toshiba, Sony and IBM has been working together to develop a microprocessor - called the Cell. Recently they have unveiled that the chip is so fast, even faster than the fastest rival Intel Pentium chips in the market. Efficacy wise, it can carry 5 times more computer instructions than a current Intel processors. With the expected launch of Sony PlayStation 3 in early 2006, the creation of Cell will promise a new era of computer graphics. Toshiba is expected to incorporate Cell into their television sets next year while IBM will sell its workstations with the chip later this year. Combining multiple Cell chips can rival the world's current top ten supercomputers.

Qoutes from a Cell engineer:

"It is so fast there is no point talking about the number."
"Cell, will be able to link millions of people into a vibrant, lifelike virtual community on a scale never seen before."
"It will be able to make movie-quality graphics without any of the tricky engineering stuff needed to produce such quality."

Though the chip has yet to be usable in computers, but the technology of this chip has been an eye catcher among the media and entertainment manufacturers throughout the world. The size of the chip is of this big:


Cell - size of my mobile SIM card.

Imagine playing a game that has graphics like this:


Need For Speed

What is this game. Or it's a delayed telecast of Super Bowl.


Imagine Cell is in your handphone, TV sets, PDAs, computers, cameras, game consoles etc. - how real a fake image can be in 2 years time?