the.com/emotion engine
the chip that taught your ps2 to render tears at 60 frames per second.
means the custom cpu inside sony's playstation 2 that fused vector processing and floating-point math to make real-time 3d graphics and physics feel alive.
from sony and toshiba built it in the late 1990s, marketing the name to imply the console could render emotion itself, not just polygons; underneath it was a 128-bit mips-based processor with two vector units built for geometry-heavy game worlds.
clock speedran at just 294 mhz, modest even then
transistor countpacked 10.5 million transistors on one die
marketing stuntsony claimed it simulated feelings, not just graphics
backward compatibilityps3 briefly included one as a physical chip
for instance
playstation 2 — sold over 155 million units worldwide since 2000
gran turismo 3 — showcased real-time car physics in 2001
final fantasy x — used its power for cinematic in-game cutscenes