This article is a little short on details, no doubt due to the general audience nature of IBM's session, but it would appear that IBM is taking going in a new direction to meet the technological needs of straight-forward application execution. Rather than introducing a lot of complexity to optimize instruction execution and multitasking, individual Cell processors (called SPEs) are relatively dumb but fast and parallel. All the SPEs work together to do things. I view it as distributed computing on a micro level.

But I may have interpreted things wrong. Read the article to get a better understanding.

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