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Sony Playstation 3 CPU Details - 4.6 GHZ

With all the Nintendo hoopla, the rumor mill on the Sony Playstation 3 is also rolling. According to sources, the new "Cell" processor will run at an amazing 4.6 gigahertz. Sony, IBM, and Toshiba will present technical papers at the International Solid State Circuits conference in San Francisco next month.

Sony plans to also use the 64 bit processor for home servers and other consumer electronics devices to power their line of HDTV televisions with content.

Other highlights of the Cell processor design include:
-Multi-thread, multicore architecture.
-Supports multiple operating systems at the same time.
-Substantial bus bandwidth to/from main memory, as well as companion chips.
-Flexible on-chip I/O (input/output) interface.
-Real-time resource management system for real-time applications.
-On-chip hardware in support of security system for intellectual property protection.
-Implemented in 90 nanometer (nm) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology.[Discuss]