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CELL Pocessor Capabilities Revealed
Date: 10/31/2005
Sony Computer Entertainment CEO and President Hisashi Taragi spoke on the Playstation 3's specifications at the WPC forum "International, Digital Tokyo Conference" held on October 27th. The heart of the next gen console is the CELL processor that SCE jointly developed with Toshiba and U.S. IBM Corp. Also discussed were some of Sony's other forthcoming hardware. It was mentioned their "4K SXRD" projector can reproduce a 4000x2000 pixel image. The president mentioned they were aiming at higher movie frame rates for their devices with a current goal of 120 frames per second (traditional TV is 50/60fps). By networking a cluster server of 16 Cell processor units a performance benchmark of 25.6 TFLOPS was achieved. 1PFLOPS was reached when 40 pairs were combined in a room.
Source: Anime News Service