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Renewing vows for the next 5 years, the three companies agree to colaborate on developing next generation semiconductor fabrication

After spending a handful of years together developing the Cell processor, IBM, Sony and Toshiba today announced that they would be staying together for at least 5 more years. The companies stated that with different areas of expertise in semiconductor technology and consumer knowledge, the three would be a powerful alliance. The companies are looking to do research on developing 32 nanometer chips and say that their efforts will result in further advancements. Toshiba's CEO said:

With Toshiba's cutting-edge process technology and manufacturing capabilities, Sony's various semiconductor technologies and deep knowledge of consumer markets and IBM's state-of-the-art material technology, we can anticipate breakthrough process technologies for the 32-nanometer generation and beyond.

The previous 5 years have been successful for the three companies with developments in SOI (silicon-on-insulator) and manufacturing chips at 90nm and 65nm. The three companies will be working together at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, which happens to also be working on carbon nanotube technology.

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1st Post!
By Saintfluffy on 1/12/06, Rating: 0
RE: 1st Post!
By OvErHeAtInG on 1/12/2006 11:48:15 AM , Rating: 2
Cell is going to be used in high-density embedded situations and the PS3. It's not exactly a PC chip. cf. the recent article on cell. Would be cool though.


RE: 1st Post!
By ManFish on 1/12/2006 12:47:26 PM , Rating: 2
No, that would suck, and suck hard. It's an OO processor (as has been stated for the nth time). But if your desktop had an OS that was coded, massaged, and raised-since-birth to be one with the Cell proccessor and you're opperating in an environment where tasks come in massively paralellizable (spelling?) chunks, then the Cell processor would be pretty usefull (granted you had an array of them)


RE: 1st Post!
By ManFish on 1/12/2006 12:47:44 PM , Rating: 3
BLAST! I meant In-order processor.


RE: 1st Post!
By phaxmohdem on 1/12/2006 7:33:23 PM , Rating: 2
As long as the cards at the end of solitare fall off the screen faster than anything else, I don't think 99% of people would care if cell couldn't do anything else well. :)


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