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Later this year millions of homes will get a new supercomputer for the living room. Or maybe the playroom. Sony's long-awaited PlayStation 3 game console, a slender yet muscular machine the size of a DVD player, performs a mind-boggling 2 trillion calculations per second. This kind of power, once reserved for seismic exploration and nuclear-weapons design, will let programmers create videogames that look as realistic as film.
Originally posted by Omniscient
I couldn't get the link to work, but by reading the few sentences that are there, I don't understand your point? As powerful as the PS3 is, it is still not a ground-breaking, next-generation super computer (which is what I got from that summary). Surely they are aware that there have been computers out for quite awhile that, indeed, can easily outdo the PS3, and are around the same size (depending on the tower of choice).
performs a mind-boggling 2 trillion calculations per second. This kind of power, once reserved for seismic exploration and nuclear-weapons design, will let programmers create videogames that look as realistic as film.
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Cell :IBM, SONY, TOSHIBA
Transistors------------Performance
(mil)--------------------(gigaflops)
234---------------------230
Xbox 360 processor :IBM
Transistors----------Performance
(mil)------------------(gigaflops)
165-------------------77
Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840 :Intel
Transistors-----------Performance
(mil)--------------------(gigaflops)
250---------------------26