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The first commercial [[Cell microprocessor]], the Cell BE, was designed for the Sony Playstation 3.
IBM designed the PowerXCell 8i for use in the [[Roadrunner supercomputer]].<ref>
Kevin J. Barker, Kei Davis, Adolfy Hoisie, Darren J. Kerbyson, Mike Lang, Scott Pakin, Jose C. Sancho.
[http://www.academia.edu/4460100/Entering_the_petaflop_era_the_architecture_and_performance_of_Roadrunner "Entering the Petaflop Era:The Architecture and Performance of Roadrunner"].
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==Implementation==
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On 12th of March 2007, IBM announced that it started producing 65nm Cells in its East Fishkill fab. The chips produced there are apparently only for IBMs own Cell [[Computing blade|blade]] servers, which were the first to get the 65nm Cells. Sony introduced the third generation of the PS3 in November 2007, the 40GB model without PS2-compatibility which was [http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/30/40gb-ps3-features-65nm-chips-lower-power-consumption/ confirmed] to use the 65nm Cell. Thanks to the shrunk Cell, power consumption was reduced from 200W to 135W.
At first it was only known that the 65nm-Cells clock up to 6 GHz and run on 1.3V core voltage, as [http://news.spong.com/article/11413?cb=936 demonstrated] on the [[ISSCC]] 2007. This would have given the chip a theoretical peak performance of 384 GFLOPS in single precision, a significant improvement to the 204.8 GFLOPS peak that a 90nm 3.2 GHz Cell could provide with 8 active SPUs. IBM further announced it implemented new power-saving features and a dual power supply for the SRAM array. This version was not yet the long-rumoured "Cell+" with enhanced Double Precision floating point performance, which first saw the light of day mid-2008 in the [[IBM_Roadrunner|Roadrunner supercomputer]] in the form of [[QS22#Cell_based_Blades|QS22]] PowerXCell blades. Although IBM talked about and even showed higher-clocked Cells before, clock speed has remained constant at 3.2 GHz, even for the double precision enabled "Cell+" of the Roadrunner. By keeping clockspeed constant, IBM has instead opted to reduce power consumption. PowerXCell clusters even best IBMs [[Blue Gene]] clusters (371 MFLOPS/Watt), which are far more power-efficient already than clusters made up of conventional CPUs (265 MFLOPS/Watt and lower).
===Future editions in CMOS===
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