Nickname: qcena

Review: With a powerfull emulator that cell chip, can run anything....u name it, and it will run it! You just need a powerfull emulator.

Date reviewed: Mar 21, 2006 2:43 AM

Nickname: ah

Review: Whether Cell will be accepted as a processor core for applications other than gaming, especially general purpose computing, depends on how easy it is to learn the programming model. After reading the documentats on the Web sites of IBM, it seems to me that to exploit the full potential of the chip programmers must write programs in a different way than they would for Intel's chips. Unless there is a large enough incentive to do the extra work (the huge performance gain justifies the extra work), it is unlikely that developers will abandon Intel or AMD chips in favor of Cell. Also the huge stock of legacy applications written over the last decades will not run on Cell, another impediment it must overcome.

Date reviewed: Feb 12, 2006 8:47 PM

Nickname: FLYMERLIN

Review: So called humans still have not learned that there is no need to "prepare" for future "military-conflicts."

Date reviewed: Feb 12, 2006 4:08 AM

Nickname: Vince Do

Review: Sony has a history of overhyping their products. Does anyone remember the "revolutionary" chip created for the PlayStation 2,the Emotion Engine? It was supposed to be able to render "Toy Story" quality graphics in real-time. That turned out to be a lot of hot air.

Date reviewed: Feb 10, 2006 9:43 AM

Nickname: kushitkushit

Review: Sounds like my l950's science fiction magazines, which are no longer about the future, but the present. I think it will transform the world as we know it now.

Date reviewed: Feb 9, 2006 4:42 PM

Nickname: Siddharth Gulhati

Review: Kudos to the trio of IBM, Sony and Toshiba. The invention of cell is definitely a major revolution in the field of performance-hungry embedded devices used across a variety of medical, imaging, digital entertainment, aerospace and defence related applications. But at the same time,I doubt it will grab a market share very quickly. I don't think it will be in competition with current Intel chips for mainstream server and mobile devices. Moreover, I believe it will take at least a decade to compete with Intel, which is found in every second machine on this planet. And last but not the least, the smaller it goes, the more complex it becomes. The Sony PlayStation 3 has just been launched recently and I guess it's too early to judge the performance of this cell chip unless it runs smoothly for a few thousand PS3 gaming sets.

Date reviewed: Feb 9, 2006 5:52 AM

Nickname: uchc

Review: Great story! We need more 'future' tech stories, and more detail. Thanks.

Date reviewed: Feb 9, 2006 4:50 AM

Nickname: Ben H.

Review: Looks like Intel could be in for a big surprise once they get blindsided by IBM.

Date reviewed: Feb 8, 2006 8:50 PM

Nickname: shambling-form

Review: I wonder why it seems nobody is planning to make cell PCs? The architecture can't be so different as to render the task too costly, can it? I use PCs to make music and play games; both are very demanding applications. I was considering saving for an Apple G5, because I could not build a PC with enough power. Since news of PlayStation 3 and Cell emerged, I have been dreaming of a Cell PC. Why not?

Date reviewed: Feb 8, 2006 7:58 PM