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Sony & Toshiba Disclose Cell Fab Plans
sean23007 writes "InfoWorld is running an article about Sony and Toshiba's plans for new fabrication plants to build the 'Cell' chip jointly developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM for use in the Playstation 3 and other home entertainment uses. The new fabs will be located in Nagasaki and Oita, and both companies plan to spend $1.7 billion over the next 3-4 years in their construction. They will be capable of using 300 mm wafers with a 65 nm process. The chip is slated to be the first 1 teraflop consumer device."
With 1 Teraflop of processing power, I hope it'll come with more than 32MB RAM this time.
They should just transcribe the Final Fantasy combat system into a hardware implementation. That's the only reason people buy these things anyway.
I propose that the limit break be implemented by some sort of register overflow.
They should do this in the Cell chips that are rumored, in the future, to be deployed in various home appliances. I, for one, would be impressed when my dryer finishes the tumble cycle and then performs a super-attack on the toaster.
Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands!