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The Challenge 

Sceptics of the revolutionary chip are viewing the design as being "too ambitious". One editor of the "Microprocessor Report" sited that "It's very hard to use a special-purpose design across a lot of products." One of his points being that the even DSL connections are not fast enough to coordinate networking tasks effeciently. Another major obstacle in the networking-aspect design is that such complex, on-the-fly coordination could present parallel program writing issues . In such an environment, the programming design will have to keep track of all the tasks being performed by dozens of processors. However, Sony representatives have said that the design will address these issues by making the cell design modular:it willadd more processors for larger devices or use fewer for smaller ones.

Several elements contribute to a computers
high performance level.

  • Numerous High Performance Processors (CPUs)for parallel processing.
  • Specially-designed high-speed interconnects (internal networks)
  • Specially-designed or tuned operating systems