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Cell Chip Looks To Video With High-End Imaging Board

Sony’s Cell gets a ride on the wild side next week at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics show in San Diego. Exhibiting its new “Cell Computing Board,” Sony intends to show the world what the PS3’s brain can do when specializing solely on video. “The “Cell Computing Board” incorporates the high-performance Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) microprocessor […]

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Sony's Cell gets a ride on the wild side next week at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics show in San Diego. Exhibiting its new "Cell Computing Board," Sony intends to show the world what the PS3's brain can do when specializing solely on video.

"The “Cell Computing Board” incorporates the high-performance Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) microprocessor and RSX® graphics processor. This results in high computational performance capable of handling large amounts of data at high speed while also achieving reductions in size and energy consumption."

Alas, this doesn't mean that we'll see a new range of video cards wading in to the mascara-streaked bitch fight between NVidia and AMD—this is for hardcore scientific applications. Requiring a 1U rackmount enclosure and 400 watts of juice all to itself, it's not going to be a consumer toy. But seriously, will someone please check out how it handles Oblivion?

Press Release [Sony]