Hardware security in PCs to accompany new Windows

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On 5/18/05, Andrew Hammond <ahammond-swQf4SbcV9C7WVzo/KQ3Mw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
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> > Besides the worst that can happen is that microsoft kills the wintel
> > industry and we all move over to powerpc.  After all the game consoles
> > have all headed that way, why shouldn't Linux users?  IBM seems to like
> > the idea.
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> Because we can go with Opterons instead? That said, the ppc is no
> slouch, and the power5 is just dishy.

My guess is that IBM would like to see the Cell processor they've been
working on (with Sony and Toshiba) take off.  It's to be the main
power behind the new Playstation console, with processing power
roughly equivalent to that of a supercomputer.

Looks like a decent amount of information on it can be found at
http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell0.html

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