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IBM-Sony-Toshiba Reveal New Cell Processor Details

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

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."

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  1. Does it run... by ViaNRG · · Score: 4, Funny

    oh, here are my glasses...

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    Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. -Heinlein
  2. Synergistic Processor Units? by ponds · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Ha Ha by robyannetta · · Score: 4, Funny
    This 'new revolutionary cell-based processor' sticks in my mind as the same 'new revolutionary cell-based processor' that Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson said would change the world in Terminator 2 and look where it got him.

    Don't forget to chain enough PS3's together to enable the "Sarah Connor" easter egg.

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    - Just my $0.02, take with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary.
  4. Linux is everywhere. by 8086ed · · Score: 5, Funny

    And yes, Cell runs Linux.

    First thing I thought of when I read it was "Duh."

    I run Linux on my toaster.

    ... I said that as a joke, but to be sure it hadn't been done, I googled it. I was wrong.

  5. Well, it finally happened by glwtta · · Score: 4, Funny
    SPUs (Synergistic Processor Units)

    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.

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    sic transit gloria mundi
  6. Synergy by Limburgher · · Score: 4, Funny

    So it will be utilizing synergy. That's good. I like my solutions to be customer-focused, and above all synergized. :)

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    You are not the customer.

  7. Developers is developers! by greythax · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.