Finally, "when put inside powerful computer servers" means the Cell people are probably talking about more than one Cell chip at a time - probably *much* more - but the reporter has failed to recognise this fact and/or make it clear to the public. It's not at all unlikely that they're talking about multiple thousands, in which case it would look rather silly if they *didn't* come up with performance in the teraflops. The hardware to do teraflops, however, is rather unlikely to find it's way into a consumer games console any time soon.
Follow-up: here's an extract from a Register article.
As for the Cell-based workstation, it's clearly only at the prototype stage, IBM and Sony having come up with an "experimental model".
Still, it packs 2 teraflops into a standard (presumably) rackmount box, apparently, with what sounds like multiple, multi-core chips operating as a kind of cluster-in-a-box configuration.
-------------------------------------------------------------- from: Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton mail: chromi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx website: http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/ tagline: The key to knowledge is not to rely on people to teach you it.