Cell powers military vehicles

Cell will handle infinite number of soldiers, tanke and other weapons of massdestruction in the virtual world. Primarily as the processor of Sony’s PlayStation 3 console but most likely in TVs and similar. That Cell would also be used to control real life military vehicles was perhaps not as expected, but it has happened. Mercury Computer Systems is the only company to launch a Cell based server systems and its latest creation is a durable server system based on the Cell architecture and will be found in various military vehicles.

“For military use, Mercury expects the PowerBlock 200 to help out with missions such as target recognition, tacking, geo-location, mapping, terrain rendering, video processing and communications.”

Whether playing PlayStation 3 will help with future military studies we will leave unsaid. Anyway it seems that Cell has found another useful application.

Source: The Register