Sony, IBM, and Toshiba are lining up today to take the wraps off the fabled ‘Cell’ processors today, a presentation sure to be filled with shiny videos and strings of chthonic numbers designed to short-circuit your discernment and show off exactly why you’ll need a Playstation 3 or new Toshiba television. But before our eyes are rubbed rough from visual miracles like milky, half-dried glue (which really is amazing; it’s like paste, but tastes like feta), John Markoff got to flip out his shiny Times badge and get plenty of details about the new architecture—sure to produce games so realistically violent that our eggs and sperms will rip themselves free of our body, unite in midair, and form a sentient glob of malevolence that would kill us all if it had remembered to self-assemble a skeleton.
Smaller Than a Pushpin, More Powerful Than a PC [NYTimes (Registration Required)]
