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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."
It is official; Linus Torvalds now confirms: Linux is dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Linux community when Linus Torvalds confirmed that Linux market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all operating systems. Coming on the heels of a recent FreeBSD survey which plainly states that FreeBSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along: Unix systems are collapsing in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. Red ink flows at Mandrake like a river of blood.
All major surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is to survive at all it will be among dirty, smelly hobbyists and those too poor to afford a copy of Windows XP. Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
Fact: Linux is dead.
I made a poop come out of my poop hole! POOP! Nuthin' like the a warm cup of poop in the morning with a bowl of poop and 2% poop. Poop in your mouth makes your teeth poopy. CmdrTaco's pee sprout tastes like poop, why is that? Poopie. If you run out of poop paper just lick your poop chute clean.
I made a shit come out of my shit hole! SHIT! Nuthin' like the a warm cup of shit in the morning with a bowl of shit and 2% shit. Shit in your mouth makes your teeth shitty. CmdrTaco's pee sprout tastes like shit, why is that? Shit. If you run out of shit paper just lick your shit chute clean.
What is Apple waiting for? Get the "Cell" chip plus tons of RAM and forget about intel and G4
I guess Saddam can't cluster these and research Nukes...
But there's always Kim Jong Il of North Korea!
and Iran!
Nintendo currently has a contract with IBM to fab the processor (a PPC derivative) for the "Dolphin", aka GameCube and other future consoles. While I'm not privy to the details (not my department), I imagine the contract has some anti-compete clause for some time.
-- Samir Gupta, Ph. D. Head, New Technology Research Group, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Kyoto, Japan.
It would greatly benefit the Open Source developer to have such a chip with such a vast potential.
Care to bet Microsoft is involved somewhere in the scheme of things?
"Our suggestion, which you should heed because we know what's best*, is that you design this to work only with WinCE and zealously prevent any unwashed heathens from reverse engineering and attempt to run other alleged operating systems on it."
* As evidenced by the huge successes of WebTV, XBox and Ultimate TV.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Now, if only I can figure out of what country I am a citizen!!!
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Cheers,
W00t
Get Your War On
Poor Nintendo.
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