What is the Cell Broadband Engine and how does it benefit the consumer?
The Cell Broadband Engine is the digital soul behind the Playstation 3 computer entertainment system. Years in the making, engineers from Sony, IBM and Toshiba have developed an advanced microprocessor unlike any other. The Cell Broadband Engine has up to eight Synergistic Processor Units (SPUs) or “cores” to help balance the processor workload thus making it more powerful and more efficient than traditional “single-core” processors. Breakthroughs in fidelity, believability and hyper-reality enabled by the raw power of the Cell Broadband Engine processor provide limitless experiences.
