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One More Sign Chip Startups Are Screwed

Posted on May 14, 2008

IBM has taken the storied Cell processor and amped up both the processing capacity and production. IBM says it will produce the Cell processor at 65 nanometers and start popping it into servers to create a supercomputing experience for the masses. That is, if the masses can afford the $10,000 price tag for an adapter card and have a need to perform high-end analytical functions or lots of video transcoding.What s cool for consumers (and a real death knell for startups) comes from IBM s Jim Comfort, a VP in IBM s systems and technology group, who told EETimes, IBM plans to contin...

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