Opening the Cell

Oh, now this pegs out my geek-o-meter: IBM will unlock door to Cell.

The three developers of the Cell processor are preparing to release full chip specifications and software libraries in an effort to rally the open-source community around the device that powers the Sony Playstation 3. With the outlook for the multicore chip's use beyond Sony's internal systems cloudy at best, the partners are hoping to spark its uptake in applications ranging from HDTVs to supercomputers.

Of course, it might just be that I'm working on a processor and technology that's at least ten years old and having to reinvent the wheel over and over and over and over and over again. Yeah. Sign me up.