Cell Processor Details - 256 gigaflops

[Esotic]

http://news.zdnet.com/PlayStation+3+chip+has+split+personality/2100-1040_22-5566340.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

For anyone that doesn't read /. religiously you may not be aware of what Sony/IBM have been cooking up.

Calling the cell processor an evolutionary step just doesn't seem right. Being a developer who's just now getting into the nitty gritty of MMX/SSE2/SIMD I'm rather excited by the possibilities.

Original /. Thread
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/07/2310237&tid=137&tid=136&tid=1&tid=10

Hoping it's not hype,

-Esotic

[many2]

It's great to come with new bright ideas like this new architecture but this won't help make the PS3 any easier to code for than the PS2 (which really was a nightmare, even more so at the beginning). Having power is one thing, knowing how to use it is something completely different.

[KillingFrenzy]

Sounds sort of like an Amiga on Yohimbe.