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Posts: 2057 from 2003/6/4
Sony and IBM did the first public presentation of the Cell at the http://www.isscc.org/isscc/.
It's just a plain beast, read the full story at http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/56139 (German article).
Anyway, until it hits the market it will still be a while.
Beside all the hype one should not forget when reading teh promising benchs that the cell is basically "nothing more than a dual core Power5 (light) with 8 DSPs". But - hey - that's someting!
Edit: fixed link
[ Edited by Zylesea on 2005/2/8 12:25 ]
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