THis seems to be big chip news considering AMD and Intels dual core just got trmapled on by Cell.
Sony, IBM , and Toshiba have released yet more details on the Cell chip. Set to be in the infamous PlayStation 3, it seems the chip has the following tasty ingredients:
- Runs above
4GHz
-
8 cores run through what must be a pretty well thought out controller.
- 90nm SOI (pffffttt so?
)
-
234 million transistors on a
221 mm squared. footprint
- Rambus designed memory interface
- XDR Memory
-
100Gbyte/sec
- The FlexIO interface (also rambus) is capable of
6.4GHz
- XDR is clocked between
3.2 and
8.0GHz 
<-----the pimprig overclockers.