Sony and IBM working on Cell-based development workstation.

Posted May 13th 2004 11:29PM by Jason McCabe Calacanis

sony ps3 cell development tool Sony and IBM are working on a Cell-based workstation for content creators, according to this Gamesindustry.biz story.

Cell is the parallel processing chip (a “supercomputer on a chip” according to this CNET story from 2002) that is being produced by Sony, IBM and Toshiba that was annouced back in 2001. It is going power not only the Playstation 3, but other consumer devices. The companies earmarked $400 million for Cell’s development.

From the Gamesindustry story:

”Microsoft should be really worried by this,” one developer told us today. “They’ve been touting Xbox 2 to their partners and talking about the kind of content they want to see created on the platform - more polygons, higher resolutions, more effects - and our response has been that the tools to create this stuff for games don’t really exist yet. Now Sony has effectively created those tools.”

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1. when is the ps3 coming out ? please tell me sir or madam

Posted at 4:18PM on Jun 16th 2005 by jamie bradley

2. great blog thanks a lot

Posted at 4:18PM on Jun 16th 2005 by Adrian Smith

3. Nice - lets hope developer make good use of this technology.

Posted at 4:18PM on Jun 16th 2005 by Rob Steptoe

4. If the PS3 Chip fails, it would suffer it consequence of making it longer and skipping next-gen systems...

Posted at 3:51PM on Sep 11th 2005 by PS2 ROCKS

5. i was reading about the Sony and IBM working on Cell-based development workstation.Posted May 13, 2004, 11:29 PM ET by Jason Calacanisand the picture i saw by it is that how the ps3 might look like

Posted at 4:18PM on Jun 16th 2005 by daniel rivera

6. Can someone please explain to me, in the simplest terms possible, what exactly is a Teraflop? I only heard of the word after reading about PS3 and watching Terminator 3.

Posted at 4:18PM on Jun 16th 2005 by A Dale

7. A teraflop is the ability to do one trillion floating point operations per second. In simpler terms, it's a measure of computing power. The higher than number, the faster the system operates.

Posted at 1:07AM on Aug 3rd 2005 by Brian

8. Yes, Microsoft should be worried as far as xBox is concerned, but Intel should be even more worried. Cell could completely take over Intel;s market unless they come out with something very impressive soon.

Posted at 4:18PM on Jun 16th 2005 by Dave S.

9. The PS3 is going to be amazing. I just hope Sony can manage to get enough PS3s out the door in a timely manner.

Posted at 4:18PM on Jun 16th 2005 by Dave

10. The PS3 is going to be amazing. I just hope Sony can manage to get enough PS3s out the door in a timely manner.

Posted at 4:18PM on Jun 16th 2005 by Dave

11. PS3 pictures at E3.That'll be something to look forward to.:-)

Posted at 4:18PM on Jun 16th 2005 by http://sonypsp.tblog.com

12. I think it's a white elephant project. Think about it: all technology news channels are talking about it, but no-one has given any concrete reasons why it should be a commercial success.The technology is cool, but will the application of the technology be cool? Will Cell really run faster for applications that matter? Or will it be cheaper?

Posted at 2:36PM on Aug 24th 2005 by nairaland.admin

13. It will change things.http://www.greenzap.com/groovus

Posted at 4:18PM on Jun 16th 2005 by Eric

14. So in a nutshell:XB2 = 2 Power4 + ATI R500 + mature SDKPS3 = 1 Power4 + 8 Cell cores + unknown SDKEh...no... PS3 will be using 4 Cell processors... so... using your terminologyPS3 = 4 Power4 + 32 Cell cores + Nvidia+unknown SDKPS3 will rock:)

Posted at 4:18PM on Jun 16th 2005 by Marty

Sony and IBM working on Cell-based development workstation.

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