Sony has thrown nearly 2 billion dollars into a revolutionary processing chip that it hopes will transform the face of home entertainment.

Its first role will be as the central processing unit in the PlayStation3 games console -- a machine that we recently learned is slated for release in early 2006, though Sony is being awfully coy about confirming it. The hugely powerful chip will eventually be fitted into TV sets and a host of other consumer electronics devices.

Ken Kutaragi, the brains behind the PlayStation games consoles, believes that the chip -- codenamed "cell" -- will give future video games machines the power to animate figures as realistically and smoothly as Golem in the Lord of the Rings, or the CGI hero in the recent film version of The Hulk. .............

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