you're making a good point about the cell technology - it seems to fit
nicely with the whole IBM strategy; should cause the wintel incumbents
some more sleepless nights ...
Shawn wrote:
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
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