An IBM representative at CeBIT 2007 shows some Linux software that can utilise the whole power of the Cell processor chip, which for certain processor intensive tasks as Multimedia, 3D, physics simulation is 10 to 50 times faster than Intel or AMD single and dual core chips.
IBM shows some application for the new kind of Digital Pen when writing on some special paper with very small dots it can be recorded onto a digital device.
IBM is doing a Cell processor demo, creating a high definition 3D model on the fly. I am talking with the chief architect of the IBM Cell project about the power of the Cell processor compared to the fastest Intel and AMD processors available. For certain tasks as encoding video, decoding video and generating 3D graphics, IBM’s 9-core Cell processor is about 10 times faster! That is simply amazing, and supposedly the Cell processor will run Linux and be available from around October this year.