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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."
I want my PS3 now!
Does the text of the article on a non-slashdotted website really constitute +3 Informative?
If I post the current date and time, can I also get a + moderation for 'Insightful'?
Despite appearances, this ain't a troll, I'm just offering commentary on a puzzling aspect of moderation. Hells bells, I'm at the Karma Kap of 50 (or Excellent, under the new system), so I can afford to piss off the moderators that so poorly used their ninja skills to mod up a robotic repasting.
But he still posted at score3 which increases his visibility to the point where he is read LONG before you are.
You have any mod points to throw at him?
Idiot.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
You are correct, sir.
I still don't get how the current system penalizes people who have the karma to burn. Posts can get high marks without the slightest regard to their content or relevance to the topic at hand.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
In other news: Intel and AMD collectively shat 214,837 bricks.
Can it survive a Kah-Meh-Ha-Meh-Ha wave without a heatsink?
I made a "cell" chip come out of my "cell" chip hole! "Cell" chip! Nuthin' like the a warm cup of "cell" chip in the morning with a bowl of "cell" chip and 2% "cell" chip. "Cell" chip in your mouth makes your teeth "cell" chipty. CmdrTaco's pee sprout tastes like "cell" chip, why is that? "Cell" chip. If you run out of "cell" chip paper just lick your "cell" chip chute clean.
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.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Haha, Finally. Great Troll. I can see all the freebsd is dying idiots crying at their keyboards.
PS2 will play XBox titles while XBox can't play PS2 titles...
"I guess that got the automatic "+1: Open Source Is Good"
Well I for one am not buying it until it plays Ogg.
"Derp de derp."
""Freedom Fries" isn't patriotism, it's jingoism
It is neither. It is just a reaction to the outrageous actions of today's "Vichy" French Government, which has never met a Middle Eastern would-be Hitler anti-semitic tyrant it didn't love.