SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - IBM has agreed to license the Cell processor -- set to drive Sony PlayStations and Toshiba TVs -- to medical and military equipment maker Mercury Computer Systems Inc., in the first deal for the chip beyond consumer electronics.
Mercury, said the company plans to use Cell as the core technology to power a range of "embedded" computers it designs for magnetic resonance image scanners in medicine to missile radar and sonar systems for military uses."
"We are beginning to expand the adoption of Cell into other industries," said Raj Desai, vice president of IBM engineering and technology services -- the custom chip design unit.

PlayStation 3 is expected to be a huge hit for Sony -- selling 80 million to 100 million new consoles by 2010, according to industry analyst Richard Doherty of Envisioneering Group in Seaford, New York.
"If IBM is successful sector-by-sector, Cell has a good chance that non-gaming uses will outstrip the massive volumes expected for Cell in Sony PlayStations," Doherty said.

Mercury is looking for Cell chips to accelerate the graphics-handling and image-rendering powers of its devices designed for use by doctors, pilots and others who require picture-perfect electronic displays to do their jobs.
"It's a choice of either using advanced technology like Cell or wait until the generally available technology catches up," Mercury Chief Technology Officer Craig Lund said.

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Cell offers the computing 'oomph' that Mercury Computer Systems has been looking for to power a new generation of products, says Craig Lund, Mercury's chief technology officer. In terms of sheer processing, he says, it produces eight or nine times the performance of other alternatives. And, in real-world tests, when the company measured the performance of systems using Cell by watts or by weight -- two crucial factors in defense electronics -- it beat the alternatives by a factor of three or four.

These performance achievements mean that much more advanced algorithms -- requiring serious number crunching -- can be put to use. For instance, one of the problems a military aircraft faces is that it gives away its position when it turns on its radar. Using Cell processing power and advanced algorithms, Lund says, it's possible that a jet with Cell on board might be able to use radar from other aircraft and land installations to "see" without exposing itself

Y algunos decían que no servía como CPU XD! (por cierto fue idea de IBM, no de Sony la de aplicarlo en esto).

Cell nos salvará la vida xd

Vale intentar hace una traduccion eva

Solo estara en Scanners medicos y demas sondas de tal tipo, y en sonares y radares militares.

Todo porque como tiene alta capacidad de punto flotante puede crear imagenes mas precisas...

Y cuando se dijo que como CPU no servia se referian a CPU de ordenador de uso general, de graficos y como servidor. En todos estos algo del 80% de lo que hay que mover son enteros y 20% flotante. Los G5 de apple se lo comen en graficos al cell, los Pentium en servers, etc... porque superan al cell en manejo de enteros. Ni hablar de que sirva como GPU porque lo que no mueve pixel shader no compite con Nvidia y ATI.

Wow no sabía que Mesiasx fuera ingeniero de la nasa. XP

[color=violet]IBM hará licenciataria de la tecnologia Cell a Mercury Computer Systems Inc., fabricante de equipo médico y militar.

Hasta ahora el Cell iba a ser montado sólo en PlayStation 3 y TVs de Toshiba. Ahora, el fabricante de equipo médico y militar, Mercury, también podrá usar la nueva tecnología.

Raj Desai, vicepresidente de IBM declaraba: "Estamos empezando a expandir la utilización del Cell en otras industrias".

Por su parte Mercury dijo que la empresa planea utilizar el Cell como la tecnología principal para impulsar una gama de ordenadores "embebibos", que van desde scanners magnéticos para uso médico a radares de misiles y sistemas sónar para fines militares.[/color]

"...who require picture-perfect electronic displays to do their jobs. "

No importa, ellos hacen la imagen, pero Microsoft hace el software de los misiles

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Cell nos salvará la vida xd