The Sony Emotion Engine
Posted by @ 8:21 AM, EST
PC World slapped up an article where they discuss the Emotion Engine and the PS2.
Here’s a bit:

"How adept is it? According to MicroDesign Resources, the processor can handle 6.2 gigaflops at 300MHz. A single gigaflop equals one billion floating-point operations per second. MDR says that makes the chip two times faster than a 733-MHz Pentium III and 15 times faster than a 400-MHz Celeron at handling tasks like full-motion video. For the statistics-minded, the processor can handle 75 million 3D transformations per second, and can render images at 2.4 billion pixels per second.
If these numbers translate into real-world performance, this should be one hot processor."
Full article
Thanks to Super PSX2 for the news.