http://techreport.com/ja.zz?comments=10463Featuring the Mercury MultiCore Plus(TM) Advantage, the CAB is designed to deliver an unprecedented 180 GFLOPS of performance in a PCI Express(R) ATX form factor suitable for compute-intensive applications such as rendering, ray tracing, video and image processing, and signal processing.
The Mercury Cell Accelerator Board features a 2.8GHz Cell processor, 1GB of Rambus XDR DRAM, 4GB of DDR2 SDRAM, Gigabit Ethernet, and a PCI Express x16 interface. Rated power draw is a whopping 210W, and the card is 12.283" long—about an inch shorter than NVIDIA's GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics card. Expect the Cell Accelerator Board to become available in early 2007 at a price of $7,999.
Potential amazing performance but for that price you can build 8 dual core Opteron or Xeon servers , with 16 processors , 32 gigs of ram and hard drives etc...
Plus even more amazing is if you can mod your PS3 to run a common linux distro , you'll be able to buy 10 of those for the same price of that card thanks to Sony's subsidy .. and render at much higher speed AND be beasting MGS 4 while your at it...
