Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Cell chip: Hit or hype? | Perspectives | CNET News.com

Cell chip: Hit or hype? | Perspectives | CNET News.com: "Cell contains 234 million transistors and takes up 221 square millimeters in the 90-nanometer production process. That's about double the size of the 90-nanometer 3.6GHz Pentium 4, with 112 square millimeters and 125 million transistors. "
Cell comes with an integrated memory controller for high-performance XDR memory from Rambus--which means that the current design works exclusively with this pricey stuff.

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