Sony is making a computer based off of the emotion engine.  It will be a
graphics workstation and be about 20k I think.


> 
> Last night, I went to visit the POVbench Homepage to see how my Duron
> 700 compares with the other chips.
> 
> Near the bottom of the single-processors chart I notice that it takes
> about 30 minutes for a 486DX 50 Mhz (the one I started with) to complete
> the skyvase scene.
> Now it takes a mere 32 seconds to do the same. That's a 60 fold
> improvement in 8 years !
> -> I'll never complain again about render time again.
> 
> Now at the very top, far from the Thunderbird875  and Pentium III 933
> (25 seconds for both of them), comes a PSX2 with an Emotio Engine that
> computes the scene in 5 seconds at 300 Mhz and for 589 $ !!!!!!!!!!!
> That beast beats some very expensive parallel computer boxes !
> First, is this render time genuine ? Some figures on the chart look very
> optimistic.
> Second, is it the chip found on the Play station II as I think it is,
> and how did the guys manage to make the processor render the scene ?
> If Povray can be run on it, so can be any other software. I am highly
> interested there.
> 
> Media + focal_blur + radiosity + AA + area_light + isosurface +
> hair_macro at 700000 pps ! What a dream.
> 

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