Sony & Toshiba Disclose Cell Fab Plans

sean23007 writes "InfoWorld is running an article about Sony and Toshiba's plans for new fabrication plants to build the 'Cell' chip jointly developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM for use in the Playstation 3 and other home entertainment uses. The new fabs will be located in Nagasaki and Oita, and both companies plan to spend $1.7 billion over the next 3-4 years in their construction. They will be capable of using 300 mm wafers with a 65 nm process. The chip is slated to be the first 1 teraflop consumer device."

Make "Cell" chip Open Source!

[Anonymous Coward]

It would greatly benefit the Open Source developer to have such a chip with such a vast potential.

32 MB?

[Anonymous Coward]

With 1 Teraflop of processing power, I hope it'll come with more than 32MB RAM this time.

Re:Who said anything about phones???

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the vibrations to power article went to some people's heads.

Re:I've never cared for cell fabs either

[confused philosopher]

...but come on Moderators! Where better to put a cell fab than in a cell phone! It sure isn't going into a vibrating PS/3!

PS3 idea

[RealErmine]

They should just transcribe the Final Fantasy combat system into a hardware implementation. That's the only reason people buy these things anyway.

I propose that the limit break be implemented by some sort of register overflow.

They should do this in the Cell chips that are rumored, in the future, to be deployed in various home appliances. I, for one, would be impressed when my dryer finishes the tumble cycle and then performs a super-attack on the toaster.

Who knew?

[psyconaut]

That the move to 65nm fabrication would be due to the machine that'll be running a to-be-released version of Grand Theft Auto and not some military system or huge scientific cluster ;-)

-psy

I just wanted to say

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank you for making my eyes bleed. I've always had a theory that improper text formatting could cause physical pain, and now it's been proven.
Thank you.

Re:PS3 idea

[photon317]

Hey! I bought mine for Gran Turismo. I'd rather see a dedicated hardware implementation of that (oh wait, I already have one of those in my garage...).

Re:Where's IBM in all this?

[tigress]

Dear Mr Gupta,

I thought you worked at Sega [google.com]?

How's your Smell-o-vision [google.com] (also here [slashdot.org]) project going?

Your educational background [google.com] is pretty impressive too.

What about Super Marx Brothers [slashdot.org]?

Finally, how's the Gameboy Advance Porn Industry [slashdot.org] going?

Anyway, good luck at your job [google.com].

(Thanks to Klaruz [slashdot.org] and cascino [slashdot.org])