News Sony Cell CPU to deliver two teraflops in 64-core config

Hmmm - Sony's getting a lot of coverage today. This from the Register:

'Cell', the massively parallel processing chip currently being designed by Sony and IBM, will scale from single-chip systems through to entire server rooms packed with thousands of them, Sony's executive deputy president Ken Kutaragi told attendees of the company's Transformation 60 conference yesterday.

That's always been the goal, of course, since Cell was first announced back in March 2001. But yesterday Kutaragi put some numbers onto the chart.

A four-core chip home server system will be able to deliver one billion floating-point operations per second, apparently. Move up to a 32-core chip - in, say, a blade server module - and you'd get 32 gigaflops of processing power, while a 64-core slab of silicon inside a rack-mount unit doing graphics work would churn out two teraflops, according to Kutaragi's presentation foils.

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Wow! This sort of power will make Big Mac and other clustered supercomputers look like casio calculators....

Of course, if this leads to true AI - "I wouldn't do that if I where you, Ken"

 

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Ewh! Sony is a dirty word.












I work for the competition

 

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A 2 teraflop chip!? Damn! Love how they say "home server"

Wonder if they'll be able to throw them into a pocket pc...

 

It would be interesting to here AMD and Intel's rections to these claims...

 

heheheheh

 

Wow a lot has been announced in the cpu market recently! Everyone seems to be making space aged chips!