I have been following the seepage of information about the Cell processor for a while now.
This seepage has now turned into something of a flow the last couple of days, due to a bunch of details released at the International Solid State Circuit Conference.
For the uninitiated, the Cell processor is a new cpu made by IBM, Sony and Toshiba.
It’s the processor that is going to power the Playstation 3.
It’s also an interesting new processor/system design.
In the beginning the information was diagrams and descriptions from patents filed by IBM.
Now there are much more understandable articles.
If you are interested in processors or computer system architectures, I’d recommend taking a look at Arstechnicas Cell two recent articles:
First Cell article
Second Cell article
If you are not technically inclined and you still want to know what it says, I’ll sum it up:
These processors, assuming they will deliver what is described, will blow the good old PC-with-a-graphics-card machines away when it comes to graphics (and other things as well).