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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. 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 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.

  2. 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"

  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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.