IBM Plans to Open the Cell Processor

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 24, 2005 @06:40AM from the fantasy-and-microchips-shooting-from-the-hip dept.

morcheeba writes "According to an EETimes article, IBM is planning on releasing the full specifications and software libraries for the powerful processor that will be in the Playstation 3. The goal is to stimulate open-source development for other applications of the chip. The article doesn't mention if there will be some affordable development systems for all these programmers -- I'm hoping for a ps3 devkit." From the article: "IBM is eager to find other opportunities for Cell, but it's going to take a lot of software work...Going to the open-source community makes sense, because they could attract a lot of pretty smart programmers who could spin out software and applications for Cell."

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Re:Sign me up! by garcia · 2005-05-24 06:56 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Like connecting to the Internet? Oh wait...

You mean like crunching numbers and displaying the results on the screen? Oh wait...

Do you mean like making real time simulations? Oh wait...

My point is that game machines do everything that all the other machines do. They just do it graphically.