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Toshiba Demonstrates Cell Microprocessor

Posted by Hemos on from the using-the-machine dept.

Cybro writes "Toshiba has demonstrated some cool applications for the Cell Microprocessor. They also revealed that they have written their own OS for the new processor. However the article on TechOn does not reveal the license of the OS."

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  1. Re:what does it do? by beef3k · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, none whatsoever.

    The PlayStation 3 will be nothing but a DVD player capable of playing back 150 movies at the same time.

    Which is kind of sad really, I would have hoped for more.

  2. Mebbe it can power by KingBahamut · · Score: 4, Funny

    this............
    http://www.lod.org/Projects/Other//index.htm

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  3. That Cell microprocessor is pretty good... by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...but the smart money's on the Goku miccroprocessor.


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  4. Maybe ToshibaTVs can do 720P correctly with this. by PornMaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wouldn't it be nice to combine this article and the previous one and have a Cell to make your 720p TV display 1080i content properly? :)

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  5. Re:WMP? by jnaujok · · Score: 2, Funny

    They say in the article that this is a "video of a wide-screen monitor". In other words, the Cell processor ran this video to a big LCD display, and someone filmed it with a camera. Then the film of that display was played back at the demo.

    This isn't that uncommon, in order to hide the fact that the ball of "wire-spaghetti" sitting on the bench below the monitor is the prototype system. It might also hide the liquid nitrogen pump they were using to cool it...

    In other words, they wanted to hide something, which could be as innocuous as a messy lab environment.

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  6. Microsoft responded by 2bluemike · · Score: 2, Funny

    by releasing a new picture of the Xbox 360. Bill Gates was heard to remark, 'Quick, buy out Toshiba before they ruin everything!'

  7. You've gotta be joking.. by LilGuy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Synergistic Processor Elements? They aren't seriously going to start calling it that... please lord no.

    I refuse to use some old buzzword from the 90s' megacorporations to describe my computer hardware. Forget about it.

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