Inside the Cell

It did not take very long for the feds to get very interested in the new Cell processor. The chip is already a topic of discussion at an upcoming Commerce Department meeting on technology export controls.

As tantalizing as the hype is around the Cell concept, I have to wait and see if anything truly comes of it besides running Sony's next video game box. Sony has a history of locking up technologies inside proprietary systems and the Cell seems like the exact opposite of that kind of technology.

But, hey, a supercomputer-on-a-chip mated to wifi-on-a-chip all running an open architecture stuffed inside digital consumer electronics? Yeah, that starts to get pretty damn exciting. Revolutionary even.