Mercury & Cell

Mercury (NASDAQ: MRCY) announced in June 2005 that it is partnering with IBM to integrate Cell technology into the market where computationally intensive applications are necessary. Some of these applications include aerospace, defense, seismic, semiconductor test and medical imaging.

Mercury has designed a Dual Cell-Based Blade based on the IBM(R) Cell BE (Broadband Engine) processor. The Blade is expected to be available in Q1 2006 and in production the following quarter.

The Dual Cell-Based Blade, based on IBM's industry-leading BladeCenter(R) design, will offer unprecedented peak performance of 400 GFLOPS and feature two IBM Cell BE processors, as well as XDR(TM) memory from Rambus Inc.

The press release here.

Hat tip to Joe of the Pinehurst Thread for the link.