The PS3 Cell… In Your Friggin Mobile Phone
The heart of the PLAYSTATION 3? A suped-up Cell processor developed by Toshiba, IBM and Sony. A single chip contains a main processor and eight sub-processors to unleash 200G Flops (floating point operations per second) of power. And now Toshiba plans to put that chip in mobile devices.
At the recent CEATEC show in Japan, the company showed off a more powerful, in development version of the chip with lower power consumption and increased performance. Says Mitsuo Saito, chief fellow at Toshiba's semiconductor company and one of the key creators of the chip:
Maybe other partners are going onto the very high-end. We are focusing on the low power area. One is for more mobile types of applications such as small games or some mobile phone-like systems.
Sony plans to look into other uses once the PLAYSTATION 3 has been launched. Yippie.
PS3 Cell In Cell Phones [Digital World Tokyo]
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