PlayStation 3 - 16 trillion floating point operations / second

John Honan <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:07:40 +0000
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It'd be nice to benchmark this one....  :-)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4051983.stm
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Some details of the chip inside Sony's PlayStation 3 have been 
revealed.* Sony, IBM and Toshiba have released limited data about the 
so-called Cell chip that will be able to carry out trillions of 
calculations per second.<> The chip will be made of several different 
processing cores that work on tasks together. The PlayStation 3 is 
expected in 2006 but developers are expecting to get prototypes early 
next year to tune games that will appear on it at launch.

When put inside powerful computer servers, the Cell consortium expects 
it to be capable of handling 16 trillion floating point operations, or 
calculations, every second.