New Playstation 3 Chip
Sony, IBM and Toshiba are set to unveil the new chip which will power the Playstation 3. Full details on the new chip will be on display at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco later today.
The chip has been described as a mini Supercomputer; in part because of the way it will distribute processing tasks. The cell structure of the chip means instead the whole device working on the same task it can distribute its power to many separate tasks. In a real world example it means that two Playstation 3's connected via a LAN or the Internet could use the others processor to perform CPU intensive tasks if the other was fairly idle. Looks like it's going to be pretty cool.
It's like cooperative gaming at the hardware level. I wonder if Microsoft will try and utilize something similar for the upcoming X-box 2 that's due November of this year?
The chip has been described as a mini Supercomputer; in part because of the way it will distribute processing tasks. The cell structure of the chip means instead the whole device working on the same task it can distribute its power to many separate tasks. In a real world example it means that two Playstation 3's connected via a LAN or the Internet could use the others processor to perform CPU intensive tasks if the other was fairly idle. Looks like it's going to be pretty cool.
It's like cooperative gaming at the hardware level. I wonder if Microsoft will try and utilize something similar for the upcoming X-box 2 that's due November of this year?
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