The CELL (PS3 chip) will be reveladed today.See first pics.

For some reason I don't think they'll ever be in alarm clocks

 

ever?? thats pretty closed minded...

 

in 70 years do you think it would still be practical to make simplistic processors? Plus there would be more functionality..

 

No, it's not that, I just don't think CPU/MCU would necessarily make good/efficient alarm clocks. If you're going to use processors, whats the benefit of using a cell processor as opposed to a PIC MCU anyway? There is none if you want a simple alarmclock that doesn't render 4d images

 

for the clock function all by itself, probably not,... but im guessing that in the future that the clocks wont use LED displays and maybe LCD displays, and maybe you can pick different "font" types of numbers. Or diferent festive themes. As well as other different functions...

 

Well maybe but doesn't that make it a computer? I'd really like to see "the cell" go into FPGA. Since IBM is behind it, I have a feeling the Apple world will first receive it in personal computing.

 

Where did you hear that nonsense...?

 

I wonder how they're gonna keep it cool with such a boatload of transistors... they bribed the laws of thermodynamics?

 

Haha I'd better go tell Intel that, I'm sure they're terrified that their business is going to disappear overnight.

I'm also sceptical about your claim that it won't generate any heat, I can't find anything on google to back it up, in fact the only site I could find that quotes a temperature is this one: http://www.techseekers.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4215
which says that cell will run at 85 degrees centigrade. Not particularly useful for alarm clocks.

Apparently PS2's emotion engine was going to be able to pull off Toy Story in real time... yeah right. This is just the Sony hype machine doing what it does best.

I think the cpu looks about the right size though, considering it's made on minute fabrication process. 65nm or something.

There's an interesting and quite in-depth article on cell here: http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t274387.html, not sure how accurate it is.

 

uhm you could have said the same about a 386 cpu but yet in the old nokia communicator 9000 series used a 386 cpu and the following generation a 486 and that in a mobile phone (the latest version should be around a pentium 1 or 2 but they are not more direct compatible i think)

so much for a ps3 cell in a alarm clock...today mobile phones have more memory then my first pc (5mb to be exact)

 

Re: The CELL (PS3 chip) will be reveladed today.See first pi

I was tired and lazy, bad combination :smt022

 

Well, mobile phones and alarm clocks are still a world apart in terms of required processing power. True, the 386/486 ended up in cell phones, but not the i860 (which imho is more like the Cell in terms of intended application).