Wow, check this new chip out!
Setting up a battle for the future of computing, engineers from IBM, Sony and Toshiba unveiled details Monday of a microprocessor they claim has the muscle of a supercomputer and can power everything from video game consoles to business computers.
Cell's designers say their chip, built from the start with the burgeoning world of rich media and broadband networks in mind, can deliver 10 times the performance of today's PC processors.
Cell appears to have an advantage in the number of transistors ? 234 million compared with 125 million for today's latest Pentium 4 chips. Cell is said to run at clock speeds greater than 4 gigahertz.