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The Cell-chip will not become only the heart of the PlayStation 3, but are found also in other applications. That was stolen of in the beginning, but now pace there a contract has been closed with an outsider. It goes round Mercury Computer Systems, a business among many specialized in military applications that for surveillance-goals become uses.

Also Cell-chip will be find away to the battlefield. Mercury will adapt the highlyest flexible chip design and place in different products, among many furrow the medical, telecom-, luchtvaart- and defense-industry. It turns then especially detectiesystems, going of sonar and radar till CT-scans and digital rntgenapparatuur.

Mercury says that the rack power of Cell uses will become the image quality of different applications to improve, for instance rntgenfoto's of a higher resolution to produce.

The Cell-chip was built to drive by IBM, Sony and Toshiba in the first place the next PlayStation on. At the same time said that consortium that they strove to a flexible design that also in other applications would fit, going of computers till brown good. The final result is a chip that via a 64-availed Power-core respect other processor turn connects and about 256 gigaflops furnishes (256 biljoen calculations pr second).