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IBM Plans to Open the Cell Processor

Posted by Zonk on 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."

5 of 430 comments (clear)

  1. Error message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why did I keep getting the message "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along" when I tried to click this article? It's almost as vague as the "You don't exist. Go away" that every command gave me after I rm -rf'ed /etc on an old linux box.

  2. 8mod up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    AAsholes, as they over the same Do, an3 with any win out; either the

  3. Re:What I wonder... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Right, and how much did the Linux Development Kit for the PS/2 take off (the HD, USB keyboard and mouse, Ethernet card + software)?

    Doesn't mean I don't want one still...

  4. Obligatory by nickptar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How long until somebody makes a Beowulf cluster of these?

  5. Re:What I wonder... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Erm...well......

    XBMC?