Cell Broadband Engine

Realizes: high-throughput parallel workloads

The Cell Broadband Engine pairs a Power Processing Element (PPE) with multiple Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs) to support the PlayStation 3 and supercomputers such as IBM Roadrunner, delivering a heterogeneous multi-core fabric for demanding parallel computation.

Examples

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PlayStation 3 console

Sony PlayStation 3 consumer console leveraging the Cell BE to drive gaming, media, and streaming workloads.

real-time 3D rendering, physics simulation, multimedia decoding high consumer moderate