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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."

4 of 234 comments (clear)

  1. Apulets? by putaro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I didn't know Apu had children. I thought the QuikiMart was his entire life.

  2. Re:Cell in TV ? by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nothing to worry about. It's reporting on your actions, but the agency it reports on doesn't exist. We've always been at war with Eurasia.

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    Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
  3. Re:Please Help! by BenjyD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought Slashdot had editors that spoke English as a first language?

  4. Re:Please Help! by LucidBeast · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Sorry to have caused you so much pain. I'm just a simple porgrammer dude and I usually let the compiler check syntax.

    I mean programar... programer... well anyways I write code.