That article is like most marketing guff and has lots of buzz words and 'concepts' but doesnt actually say what it does.

How about it sony, tell us in one line what that article says "It renders your vegas stuff!"

Marketing guff is aimed at know nothing execs who tell their IT guys to just buy it, they pretend they know what it does so they dont look stupid. The end users like me would like something useful.

Well, whatever it does do, it uses less power. And what it does is faster, than whatever preceded it: "to realize high speed computational performance".

It is also very slim, which I'm always a great admirer of, and has a neato trade name: "ZEGO" - “Zest to Go”. But the truly "telling" informationally positive manifestul operative conceptual-on-message line is "emphasizing Sony’s dynamic advancement towards the future of video production with that new, hybrid multi-core processing platform." Ah! Got it!!

Must get at least 2 of these puppies. Doesn't show a price? Maybe I wont then.

Grazie

A little more information directly from Sony on the ZEGO:

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/200808/08-095E/index.html

This demonstrates the cell power with good software, but the current IBM cell 8i is like 4X to 16X more powerful than the Sony 65nm cell, then then there is the IBM 16i....... oops

1- Low power and small size are important when you want to have a lot of them running at once. I'm not sure if 330W is that low power though.

2- It seems that Sony has been trying to get something like this going since they announced the Cell (a lot of press releases saying that this would be good for video production). The Cell has a lot more potential horsepower... but the software has to be written to work on the Cell processor, so I believe that's why it didn't quite immediately take off.

My guess is that they hope to target 3d rendering work, where you do need high performance and render farms. But they'll need software running on their platform.

The question is, will it also play PS3 video games? ;-)

Basically, this is a rack-mounted unit that one would use to assemble a 4K hardware-based render farm.

Oh it's more than just for rendering farms. It is for 4K pre-vis as well. This will do real-time preview like no GPU has ever done before. The Cell is uniquely designed for this kind of work but you will need software that is designed to take advantage of the Cell's architecture so to answer the original poster's question: No it will not work with the Vegas we know it but perhaps in the future..? who knows.. From what I'm reading the price will be less that $10K so I wouldn't get too excited (that usually means $9,999.98)

~jr

I've been seeing this advertised in the latest pro video magazines. Low-power is a holy grail in blade servers because every one of the manufacturers say theirs is lower power than all other units. Blah, blah..

Yes, the price will be just south of $10K (for those producers with a $10K limit on their company PO authorization level).