{"id":547731,"date":"2006-01-16T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T11:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547731-techies-say-ps3-chip-is-revolutionary.html"},"modified":"2006-01-16T11:30:31","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T11:30:31","slug":"techies-say-ps3-chip-is-revolutionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547731-techies-say-ps3-chip-is-revolutionary.html","title":{"rendered":"Techies say PS3 chip is revolutionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">IBM&#8217;s radical Cell processor, to debut in Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 3 (PS3), could reshape entertainment and spark the next hi-tech boom, says Forbes.Com. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Sony&#8217;s PS3 game console performs 2 trillion calculations per second. This means millions of homes will soon sport a supercomputer with the kind of power once reserved for seismic exploration and nuclear-weapons design to enable programmers to create videogames that look as realistic as film. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The report says some techies predict PS3 will usher in the next microchip revolution. The Sony system owes its computing power to a microprocessor called Cell, which runs at least 10 times as fast as Intel&#8217;s most powerful Pentium. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>INet-Bridge<\/i> ||\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=35623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM&#8217;s radical Cell processor, to debut in Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 3, could reshape entertainment and spark the next hi-tech boom, says Forbes.Com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}