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The US firm Mercury Computer Systems has licensed the Cell microprocessor “to develop products with dramatically improved performance for graphic-intensive workloads and computationally intensive applications,” including military and medical computer systems. Mercury is the first company other than the developers of the chip, Sony, IBM and Toshiba, to license the technology and plan to use the chip in systems such as MRI scanners and radar processing systems.
The Cell chip is the heart of the PlayStation 3 and will also be found in high performance television sets from Toshiba next year. The chip is also rumoured to be used by Bose to create an intelligent vehicle suspension system. Some analysts are predicting that the demand of Cell processors by third parties could be more than Sony will require for production of the PlayStation 3.
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