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Cell
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:59 pm
by Rat
NewScientist Magazine wrote:A radically different chip with massive processing power is making waves in the computer industry
THE supremacy of the Pentium is to be challenged by a revolutionary chip with massive processing power. But experts are divided over whether the Cell, which was launched last week, will be enough to end Intel's 20-year domination of the PC market. Some see the new chip as the future of personal computing: others say that the huge quantity of software designed to run on Intel's chips has made the company's position unassailable.
The Cell is a joint effort by IBM, Sony and Toshiba. Unlike the Pentium, it is a parallel-processing chip that contains no fewer than nine high-power microprocessors that communicate with each other using supercomputer-like links.
Once the design is perfected, says IBM, a single Cell chip will be capable of processing data at 256 billion floating point operations per second (256 gigaflops), which makes it roughly an order of magnitude faster than today's Pentium 4 chips.
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:27 pm
by nesman
"an order of magnitude"
that means x10?
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:11 am
by quicksilver
I have read about these Cells already in conjunction with play station 3 developement. They are being pushed forward as a new DRM strategy by Sony at the moment.
So much as I like the idea of competition for Intel I also like the Idea of non big brother.
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:01 am
by Red XIII
Competition is the key to industry
I wonder what PS3 is going to look like...
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:13 am
by Rat
nesman wrote:that means x10?
Yes.
Quicks, I hadn't seen that about Cell with DRM. Got a link?
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:08 pm
by quicksilver
This link provides a small overview but is not the link I originally read
http://news.com.com/PlayStation+3+Cell+ ... 63803.html
This one might be the one I read.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/01 ... _part_one/
sounds like if we buy into this our choice is gone along with our money and that will allow the big corporations to lord over us , well you guys anyway..
I dont own any games consoles, let alone one that speaks to anyone who it wants to
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:20 pm
by Rat
Thanks for that. I was particularly interested in a link, on the page, to news about a hack that has made napster downloads free of charge. hehehe
freenap
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:53 pm
by quicksilver
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:23 pm
by Rat
I probably did!
I read stuff, it goes in... and a few minutes later it goes straight out of my head again.
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:51 am
by Red XIII
Rote memorization sucks
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:53 am
by quicksilver
Well Red as you know when you visit the room ,I have an encyclopaedic knowledge of useful CricketMx threads for every emergency : )
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:16 am
by Rat
Lol..... is it in the form of a database?
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:26 am
by quicksilver
Err sort of...
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