New 45nm Cell Processors From IBM
Designed by Sony, Toshiba and IBM, an alliance known as "STI", the Cell is a CPU architecture used in more devices, with the most notorious of them being, probably, Sony's PlayStation 3 game console. At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, IBM announced some interesting changes regarding the Cell...
Currently, this processor is produced using the 65nm technology, but since Intel already has 45nm CPUs on the market, and AMD announced them for a later time, it's no surprise that STI decided to start using the 45nm fabrication technology for the Cell. Obviously, this move is going to bring some changes, all of them leading to better performance and lower power consumption, as it follows...
According to IBM's presentation at ISSCC, the Cell built using 45nm fabrication technology and running at 4GHz has a power consumption with 42 percent lower than the 65nm model, and about 66 percent less than the older 90nm one. Apart from these, the best part is that the new technology allows higher clock frequencies, expectations for the 45nm Cell being of 6GHz, maybe even 7GHz.
Unfortunately, no information about the time when these new processors will arrive on the market has been disclosed, so I guess there's a pretty long wait ahead...
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