IBM Making 65nm Cell Processors

[HardOCP News]

IBM has begun production on the 65nm version of the Cell processor. The die shrink should make the processors cheaper, consume less power and produce less heat. In addition to IBM’s plans for a super computer based on the Cell, the 65nm processor is part of Sony’s overall cost cutting measures for the PS3.

The new Cell Broadband Engine is being manufactured at IBM's factory in East Fishkill, New York, using a 65-nanometer manufacturing process, which is an improvement on the current 90-nanometer process. Typically such a step in process technology results in a chip that is physically smaller and uses less power.

 

[jmackay]

IBM has also won a contract from the U.S. Department of Energy to supply a supercomputer based on the Cell processor. Code-named "Roadrunner," the computer will be capable of up to 1,000 trillion calculations per second (one petaflop).

Cool.

 

[Terminus]

i'll be impressed when we hit the googolplex mark

for the kids, that'd be exactly 10^(10^100)

 

[Silentbob343]

nice, already going to 65nm.