PS3's 'CELL' specs.

Thanks MxxCon for posting this on our bpn forum.

Hiroshige Goto is one of the most famous emerging technology specialists around. Especially when it comes to semiconductor related topics. He wrote a very impressive article about the PS3 "CELL" chip, based on the patent paper that was unveiled recently.

A preferred instance for deploying Cell processors is 4 data * 8 APU * 4 PE. As a result, 512 32bit floating point arithmetic and 512 32bit integer arithmetic per clock are processed simultaneously. In short word the number of clock on CELL is 1 Tera FLOPS.

CELL specifications:
• 32 sub processors on one chip

• 256 processing units

• max 1024 32bit data calculation

• 1 Tera FLOPS power

• the number of transistors is over 1B

• outer memory is "Yellowstone" DRAM by Rambus

• chip-interconnect technology will be "Redwood" by Rambus

• "Emotion Engine", the core chipset of PS2, is integrated in one chip with "Graphics Synthesizer".