Yes.  It will have several emotion chips in parallel.  I read a link
about it but do not know where.  It may have been /. or arstechnica.


> 
> 20k ?
> 
> 20 000 $ ?
> 
> Fabien
> 

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> > 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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