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The Mystery of Cell Processors

Posted by Hemos on from the nothing-to-do-wit-DBZ? dept.

LucidBeast writes "Consumer appliances requiring more computing power Sony, IBM and Toshiba started 2001 developing "Cell"-processor that comprises of multiple processor cores and should give performance ten times of conventional processors. Now the CNN Money reports that details of the processor will be released Feb. 6-10 at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. Also reported by EE Times. Rumors also tell that Sonys PS3 development platform has already been shipped to some developers equipped with the cell processor."

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  1. Future by iive · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you wonder what these processors looks like, take a look of T101 (Terminator 2) cyberbrain ;)

    1. Re:Future by hunterx11 · · Score: 2, Funny

      6502? So he'll kill you and beat you at Nintendo!

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  2. Please Help! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Consumer appliances requiring more computing power Sony, IBM and Toshiba started 2001 developing "Cell"-processor that comprises of multiple processor cores and should give performance ten times of conventional processors."

    What in the hell does that sentence mean? I can handle a couple of spelling or grammatical problems, but seriously! What the fuck does that mean? Are 3 companies working together to create this Cell processor, or are there three different Cell processors...

    1. Re:Please Help! by WombatDeath · · Score: 2, Funny

      Someone's created a Cell processor which has become sentient and submitted a rather garbled story about itself to slashdot.

    2. Re:Please Help! by CarbonJackson · · Score: 3, Funny

      It means LSD is alive and well. It means retards have "hacked" their way into the submission que. It Means Cmdr. Taco is submitting stories under psuedonyms. It means you didn't recognize the plot of the Jennifer Lopez blockbuster, "The Cell". It means...I don't know what it means.

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    3. Re:Please Help! by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 4, Funny

      I've seen a quote saying that once we get a natural language compiler, we'll find that geeks can't write.

    4. Re:Please Help! by uradu · · Score: 2, Funny

      The only meaningful way I could parse it is that three consumer appliances named Sony, IBM and Toshiba that are in need of more computing power got together and started developing this "Cell" processor. If they're sentient enough to do that, what more do they need?!

    5. Re:Please Help! by wheany · · Score: 2, Funny

      Slashdot has "editors", not editors.

  3. Well.. by oexeo · · Score: 5, Funny
    multiple processor cores and should give performance ten times of conventional processors.

    About 10 processor cores, right?

    They should have enough power to divide by zero by now, right? or is that still to "difficult"

  4. DBZ by Stephen+Williams · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... should give performance ten times of conventional processors.

    Twenty times, after absorbing an android or two.

    -Stephen

  5. Re:Apulets? by emj · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually Apu and Manjula are the proud parents of eight well behaved children.

  6. Say whaaaat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Consumer appliances requiring more computing power Sony, IBM and Toshiba started 2001 developing "Cell"-processor that comprises of multiple processor cores and should give performance ten times of conventional processors.

    Methinks LucidBeast needs to brush up on the lucidity!

  7. Cell Phones by Kinlan · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ah so that is how they work :)

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  8. Re:Article text by choas · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, Thanks!

    To think we almost slashdotted CNN!

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  9. Playstation3 vs. XBox2 by grungeman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like Playstation3 vs. XBox2 will look like a battle between a Terminator T1000 and Clippy.

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    1. Re:Playstation3 vs. XBox2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Never underestimate the power of Clippy, maybe it can irritate the T-1000 to death!

    2. Re:Playstation3 vs. XBox2 by slushbat · · Score: 2, Funny

      Clippy wins hands down. You only need to crush a T1000 in a hydraulic press to disable it.

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    3. Re:Playstation3 vs. XBox2 by !the!bad!fish! · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think you'll find that the T1000 would still win.

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  10. Re:Cell in TV ? by MrBandersnatch · · Score: 2, Funny

    DRM

  11. Re:What they didn't mention by the_consumer · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, it'd run at 10.3 GHz is what you're saying, or perform at an equivalent thereof? That's a fairly significant jump over the 4.7GHz Pentiums aavailable now.

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  12. Re:Article text by worst_name_ever · · Score: 4, Funny
    "In the future, all forms of digital content will be converged and fused onto the broadband network"

    And all restaurants will be Taco Bell...

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  13. Re:End Result May Disappoint by d3kk · · Score: 4, Funny
    As a reformed geek myself I never want to touch the guts of a computer again.

    You're in the wrong place.

  14. Re:What language do they use? by rblum · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bwahaaha!

    Either you've neither seen a Sony API, or you're the most brilliant cynic I've ever seen. I almost fell of my chair laughing. "I'm sure the API will be beautiful" - yeah, right.

  15. Divide by zero by servognome · · Score: 3, Funny

    or is that still to "difficult"
    TOO/0 = TO

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  16. Re:End Result May Disappoint by eclectro · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're in the wrong place.

    Yeah, he's fallen off the wagon. He probably has his screwdrivers out right now and is caressing the RAM upgrade he is about to put into his computer.

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