IBM, Sony, Toshiba - A sleeper Cell?
Posted on February 8, 2005
Filed Under Computing |
With Intel stumbling, AMD doing well with old technology, IBM-Sony-Toshiba have teamed up to take IBM’s Power CPU architecture (i.e. G5) to the next level. The new CPU, named the Cell, is targeted to take over the bit crunching of everything from your next-gen PlaySation to desktop/laptop to server to TV/media device. Some of the highlights are:
- built with multimedia and fast network access in mind
- several cores capable of running 10 simultaneous instruction sequences
- the above will allow multiple OSes to be run at the same time (think of running PS3, OS X, and Linux from one box - that’s multitasking)
Read more about it from Wired.
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