Bruce describes the Cell Broadband Engine Processor, a novel microprocessor jointly developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM. The Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA) is designed to provide power-efficient and cost-effective high-performance processing for some of the world's most demanding applications, including next generation game consoles. The CBEA defines a processor structure directed towards distributed processing. The intent of the architecture is to allow implementation of a wide ra