Read your blog - good summary... But, you seem to have missed another of the other "coincidents". IBM, Sony, and a third company (Nintendo or Toshiba maybe?) are involved in developing the Cell architecture that will be used with the Playstation 3. If you search slashdot for "cell", you should find a relatively recent article on the Cell architecture where a fellow has tried to decipher the system from the Patent filings. The technology certainly sounds impressive - a single cell supposedly has as much processing power as a 5-way Opteron computer, but costs less and can be linked to other cells for extra processing capacity as needed - even over the network. Then throw in the fact that the PS3 is supposed to have 4 cells - sounds like this gaming console will have more computer capacity than ALL the computers I have ever owned combined. The cell technology is being touted as potentially bringing an end to the x86 era of computers.
So, it would appear that IBM has some grand plans in the not too distant future, and it ought to be very interesting to say the least.... Shawn On Monday 31 January 2005 22:01, Niels Voll wrote: > add to that the power.org announcement, and it all seems to be quite > connected. > > see also (shameless plug to my blog entry:) http://voho.com/vcms/en/?id=50 > > ...Niels _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
