Sony, IBM, and Toshiba officially unveiled their Cell processor today, talking hard numbers and even showing a few pictures of it. The Cell is a multicore processor capable of handling many large tasks at once, with Sony saying it shows similarities to current supercomputers. Based on 64-bit architecture, the Cell houses eight "Synergistic Processing Units", although it can use more or less, depending on what's needed. Engineers have clocked it above 4GHz and processing 256 billion floating-point operations per second. If you want to get into the hard tech specs, check out IGN's report
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