BBC is reporting on a few new details relating to the ‘cell chip’ which will power the PlayStation 3 which is due in 2006.

The three firms claim that the Cell chip will be up to 10 times more powerful than existing processors.

When put inside powerful computer servers, the Cell consortium expects it to be capable of handling 16 trillion floating point operations, or calculations, every second.

The chip will power the PS3, but it will power workstations & servers. Link to article.