http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=1&u=/nm/20041129/tc_nm/tech_cell_dc
So … what is so revolutionary about this chip?
I guess there’s been a lot of hype over the idea that Cell is designed to distribute tasks over a network.
Since multi-core processors and distributed computing are hardly new, I don’t think there’s anything truly “revolutionary” about Cell. We’re just seeing the natural progression of these technologies into the consumer space.