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IBM-Sony-Toshiba Reveal New Cell Processor Details
BBCWatcher writes "The three main partners in the Cell Processor initiative announced technical details of the new architecture. IBM's documents are particularly revealing. There's much more information on how developers, including open source developers, can access the SPUs (Synergistic Processor Units). As reported earlier, Sony will put the Cell into every Playstation 3 game machine, due early next year. And yes, Cell runs Linux."
oh, here are my glasses...
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. -Heinlein
Synergistic Processor Units
OK, who let the marketroids in the lab?
Synergistic Processor Units?
That's it, the Playstation 3 will definately win the next console war due to exploiting its Synergistic Processor units and developing core competencies to sustain a long-term competitive advantage in the new paradigm. Now that word is out on the blogosphere, Microsoft should just give up.
Bingo, BTW.
Don't forget to chain enough PS3's together to enable the "Sarah Connor" easter egg.
- Just my $0.02, take with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary.
Meyer: Excuse me, but "proactive" and "paradigm"? Aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? [backpedaling] Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that. [pause] I'm fired, aren't I? Myers: Oh, yes.
it's parts of the goku, vegeta, freeza, king cold, piccolo, tienshinhan processors put together into one super processor
in other news, rumors spread about Intel's new gohan processor
if i'm not immortal, what's the point of living?
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And yes, Cell runs Linux.
... I said that as a joke, but to be sure it hadn't been done, I googled it. I was wrong.
First thing I thought of when I read it was "Duh."
I run Linux on my toaster.
They finally have a TLA with "synergy" in it... doesn't that Godwin the technology, or something?
Incidentally, are they fresh spu? Most civilized people can't stomach spu fresh.
sic transit gloria mundi
"Showtime Synergy!"
Sony better watch out for Nintendo's "Misfit" processor. It's songs are better.
So it will be utilizing synergy. That's good. I like my solutions to be customer-focused, and above all synergized. :)
You are not the customer.
There's much more information on how developers, including open source developers...
HOW DARE YOU! You can't include open source developers as a sub category of developers! When you say developers, you better mean closed source developers! We don't let that open source scum use our compilers and such, so we refuse to let the word "developers" mean "all developers". Don't you go insinuating that it should include OTHER TYPES OF DEVELOPERS when we say DEVELOPERS!
And while we are at it, Perl Developers aren't developers either. Lump them in the cryptographers, we don't want them.
SPU? Sounds like something I do every few saturday nights, after ingesting too many alco-beverages.....
He said that basically said that the PS3 was more than just a game console and could run Linux, Mac OS X, clear up your skin, cure cancer, find you a date..., etc.
Sorry, can't remember the link.
Reading Anandtech, or Ars, for an analysis of the Cell architecture is like watching Dr. Phil for your personal problems...
So what you're saying is I should avoid buying anything that you buy, in fear that it might go down in flames due to it having an "interesting architecture"? :)
Karnal
http://www.misinformer.com/archive/2001/01/15/
an excerpt
mis: I've noticed there are a few thrillingly exotic looking integrated modules on this machine that I've never seen on any console before. What is this first one on the left here labeled "internet?"
Sony: Whaa? Are you a stupid man? It isa internet in the port!
mis: So you mean, you can plug a phone line into it, and play multi-player games online, like with the Dreamcast?
Sony: Dreamcast? Ha ha, funny stupid yankee! You dishonor me with your mention of this Dreamcast. The Praystation 3 does not connect to internet, Praystation 3 CONTAIN the internet. You prugga in the computer to the port, the internet isa all there. We copy it inside machine for fast access.
mis: Wait, so you're saying that you copied every single file on the internet into this box? That doesn't even make any sense! The internet is a constantly changing network of millions of individual machines. How does the PS3 update its so called "internet" if it has no connections to the real network?
Sony: Thasa right. No connections. Praystation 3 get internet from outerspace.
mis: And its power?
Sony: It run on love.
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There I was completely wasting, out of work and down
All inside it's so frustrating as I drift from town to town
Feel as though nobody cares if I live or die
So I might as well begin to put some action in my life
(1) Breaking the law
(2) Breaking the law
(3) Breaking the law
(4) Breaking the law
So much for the golden future, I can't even start
I've had every promise broken, there's anger in my heart
You don't know what it's like, you don't have a clue
If you did you'd find yourselves doing the same thing too
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(7) Breaking the law
(8) Breaking the law
(9)You don't know what its like (go-to 5)
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