October 31, 2005

Ken Kutaragi on PS3 Power

Ken is up to his crazy antics again proclaiming the power of the Playstation 3. 120 frames per second! 10 HDTV channels decoded at once! Whoopee. Just ship the damn console already so we can see it for ourselves.

Kutaragi also pointed out that the Cell chip can decode more than ten HDTV channels at a time, and can be used for rotating and zooming effects. He discussed some of the different ways in which it could be used - to display actual-size newspaper pages, for example, to show more than one HD channel on the screen at a time, or for video conferences. Kutaragi also explained how a processing power of 25.6 teraflops could be achieved - by creating a Cell cluster server with 16 units, each madeup of eight Cell processors running at 2.5Ghz.