It's happening! IBM's cell chip!

Well, finaly unveiled! The long anticipated Cell chip, a supercomputer on a chip actually, has been showed public!


Just to mention a few highlights of Cell:
- breakthrough architectural desing: 8 synergistic processors @ 4GHz+
- massive floating point processing capability
- OS neutral (!!!) - supports multiple Operating Systems simultaneously (!) - including Linux.

And this is HUGE. It's going to change our (digital) lives forever. Remember this.

I'm so excited about it, that I don't realy know what to write. So check out the links below (they were selected as something that's worth reading!).

Also, enjoy some photos of the Cell. We're witnessing another breakthrough in computer history, man. Be aware of that! ;-)


234 million transistors @ 4GHz+!!! ------- 8-way Cell!




Size comparison to a coin ------- Lisa Su at IBM's 300mm plant in East Fishkill


Opinions from PC Magazine: Intel's Albatross
But what I'm hearing is what many of us have expected for years. Sony is going to leverage its PS3 into a computing platform with many uses, including traditional PC functions.
Let's face it, Web surfing and word processing can be accomplished easily on a 2-teraflop chip, with power to spare. If I were Dell, Microsoft, or any other company in the PC market, I'd keep an eye on Sony and see whom it is partnering with.
It wasn't lost on me that IBM just gave up the personal computer business while continuing to work on the Cell chip and help with this new platform. You have to assume that IBM knows a lot about what's going on and got out of the PC business while the getting was good.
(comment: yes, IBM knows what's going on. IBM always knows whats going on.)


Wall Street Journal: Sony, IBM, Toshiba To Offer First Peek Of `Cell' Chip Design

BusinessWeek: IBM Discovers the power of one

IBM's Press Release

The world of (personal) computing and home entertainment will never be the same again.