IBM's Plans For the Cell Processor

angry tapir writes "Development around the original Cell processor hasn't stalled, and IBM will continue to develop chips and supply hardware for future gaming consoles, a company executive said. IBM is working with gaming machine vendors including Nintendo and Sony, said Jai Menon, CTO of IBM's Systems and Technology Group, during an interview Thursday. 'We want to stay in the business, we intend to stay in the business,' he said. IBM confirmed in a statement that it continues to manufacture the Cell processor for use by Sony in its PlayStation 3. IBM also will continue to invest in Cell as part of its hybrid and multicore chip strategy, Menon said."

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Re:So where's the story here?

[c0lo]

The story is not that IBM continues to manufacture chips but that the Cell design is not dead.

To be frank, while playing games, I still preffer Pringles to any other chips!
(in other words: WTF should I care what chips is my gaming machine using??)

"IBM's Plans For the Cell Processor "

[blind biker]

I know Slashdot is the enemy of good writing practices, so this post will be modded downto hell, but I feel I must point out that lately, the capitalization of titles of Slashdot submissions got completely out of hand. The rule is simple: if you want to capitalize your headlines, you capitalize every word except
- prepositions ("of", "to", "in", "for", "with" and "on")
- articles ("the, "a" and "an")
- and some other obvious exceptions.

On Slashdot, the editors are so ignorant that they usually capitalize each and every word. But this title, "IBM's Plans For the Cell Processor ", shows that capitalizing every word is not even a policy!