Word: processors
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They could very well lose it. Rumors surrounding the PlayStation 3's processor make it sound like the Ark of the Covenant wrought in silicon, and it may be much further along than Gates gives it credit for. "We look at delivering a quantum leap in technology, not just Xbox version 1.5," a Sony spokeswoman said recently. ("Kutaragi's good at rhetoric," Gates says of Sony PlayStation czar Ken Kutaragi.) For all the Xbox's underdog pluck, the PlayStation 2 still has an overwhelming hold on the $25 billion global video-game market: 68% at last count, to Microsoft...
Like Microsoft, Sony--whose next-generation PlayStation might not hit store shelves until next spring--hopes its machine will become a home-entertainment hub. Sony is banking on the muscle of the PlayStation's new Cell processor, which the company has called "a supercomputer on a chip" with 10 times the power of the latest PC processors. The new console may employ Sony's new high-density "Blu-ray" DVDs, allowing for longer and more cinematic games. But Sony's online strategy remains unclear...
...most mawkish family response made it to the networks. George Will complained about the "pornography of grief" in hostage-family coverage, and on a talk show he asked Secretary of State George Shultz whether "we are so paralyzed by 40 lives" that our foreign policy was jeopardized. Some word-processor warriors were quite ready to sacrifice the hostages in their eagerness for "bold" retaliatory action, usually unspecified. C.D. Jackson, who served on General Eisenhower's wartime staff, used to call such macho talk "making tiny fists in your pocket...
That may sound like a simple enough statement, but it represents a profound revolution in the way the Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker--long the powerhouse of Silicon Valley--does business. Forty years ago this April, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that given advances in transistor miniaturization, computer processors should double in speed every 18 months. Not only did Moore's law become the most trustworthy truism in technology, it was also the rock on which all Intel marketing was founded. Why did you need a PC with an Intel Pentium II processor? Because it was four times as fast...
...dual-core technology. Dual-core puts two brains on the same chip, which makes it easier to run multiple applications at the same time. But Desktrino may be outmoded before it is born. IBM, Sony and Toshiba took a surprise lead recently when they announced production of their Cell processor, which has eight brains to Desktrino...