PS3 Chip to Power IBM Computer Servers
According to an article in The Seattle Times, the chip that powers the PlayStation 3 will also be used to power the computer servers at IBM. The chip’s designer is pimping it around to several other places as well, including the medical, entertainment and defense industries. Pretty soon the “Cell” chip will be powering the world.
Meanwhile, where there’s hype there’s skeptics, and this case is no exception. There’s those who say “Like it’s so totally overrated” and others who say, “It will get PWNED!”
I don’t know who said these things, but I’m sure they were said.
Meanwhile, IBM is proud and excited by the new toy.
The “Cell” chip will make its IBM debut in a new line of “blade” servers, which are relatively thin chunks of circuitry designed to perform specialized computing tasks.
IBM envisions Cell-based blades seeing action in markets requiring sterling graphics and intensive computing, possibly finding homes, for example, in military vehicles.
“It’s not going to be a general-purpose computer,” said Tim Dougherty, IBM’s director of blade-center strategy. “But for certain things, it is incredible, and it will make orders of magnitude difference.”
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