A Cell by any other name

Today's Register has a great three page article doing some serious analysis and a little speculation on the upcoming Cell processor from IBM, Sony and friends. This is the most interest I've had, no that ought to read "this is the only time I've been interested" in a chip since the days when the Pentium 1 was first launched. This is the new chip that's going to power the Playstation three as well as the next generation of Nintendo and Xbox consoles. The *potential* impact of this chip is what makes it interesting. It was preceeded by this article which is also a good read.