I was reading a recent article that was talking about playstation 3's new revolutionary cell technology which would replace the cpu using ultra small silicon tidbits containing tiny processors meshed with memory and communication circuits. IBM presumes that the cell technolgy Dime sized piece of silicon will pack the power of 36 desktops at a mere cost of 5$; also IBM shceme call for each cell to contain the equivalent of a 1 ghz processor and for cell chips to hold 500mb to 1gb of memory for allocating among cells as needed. The technology for merging processors with memory is not a new thing it is used in modern appliances, multimedia gear, and cars, the only new objective of IBM's cell technology is to have this done at much higher minicule. That is why Sony is teaming up with Ibm and Toshiba to make the new console which current financial planning delegates 400 million dollars for production costs. If the PS3 actually incorporates cell technology game design, and game playing will change. For example, with the cell chip design you wouldn't have a single cpu running data for several charcters at a time instead, it would be more likely that a single cell would control it's own character endowing each one it's own brain. However, cell technology would require more then a dvd to make a game remotely satisfying, therefore speculations of the ps3 running through an internet connection to feed its hungry cells are rampant.
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