Anandtech has an article detailing on how the Sony/IBM/Toshiba Cell microprocessor, the CPU to be used in the PS3 and some interesting, albeit long features on CMOS workings.


Cell is just as much of a multi-core processor as the upcoming multi-core CPUs from AMD and Intel, the only difference being that Cell's architecture doesn't have an entirely homogeneous set of cores.

Cell's Execution Cores
The Cell architecture debuted in a configuration of 9 independent cores: one PowerPC Processing Element (PPE) and eight Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). The PPE and SPEs are obviously different, but all eight SPEs are identical to one another.

The PPE is IBM's major contribution to the Cell project; it also appears to be very similar to the core being used in the next Xbox console.


Anandtech