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Sony & Toshiba Disclose Cell Fab Plans

Posted by timothy on from the bit-factories dept.

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."

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  1. A fab is a 3d fax ? by AtariAmarok · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'd not before seen "Fab" used for fabricating plant, but I did know the "fab" as a sort of 3-d fax machine that re-creates solid objects (in shape anyway). It laser-scans the original, and creates a solid copy (corn starch?) at the receiving end.

    The item title gave me visions of a new breed of cell phone that could spew solid objects.

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  2. Re:Make "Cell" chip Open Source! by NanoGator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "I guess that got the automatic "+1: Open Source Is Good"

    Well I for one am not buying it until it plays Ogg.

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