] I had heard plenty about how powerful the Cell processor
] is, but all those gigaflops and whatnot didn%u2019t mean
] a whole lot to me. Finally, I'm starting to get a
] clearer picture of what it can actually do. In a
] demonstration at the "COOL Chips VIII" show
] held by Toshiba in Yokohama last week, a Cell processor
] setup decoded 48 SDTV resolution MPEG-2 video streams
] simultaneously. The videos were then thumbnailed, tiled,
] and displayed at a resolution of 1920 x 1080.
] There's more potential, though -- of the eight
] "SPE" signal processors inside the Cell chip,
] six were used for video decoding, one for video output,
] and one was left idle. For those that may have missed it,
] Sony plans on putting a Cell processor inside each and
] every Playstation 3.