IBM announces Cell Design Activities

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http://www.businessweek.com/ap/fin [...] _tech_down

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Raj Desai, vice president of the engineering services division, said
International Business Marhines Corp. has been working with companies
for the past six to nine months and that the chip is already
integrated in some applications. He declined to name the companies.

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The most interesting item is what IBM insists Cell is _not_ going to
be doing:

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When asked if the Cell processor might run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows,
the world's dominant operating system, Desai questioned why any
business would want to do that.

"I just don't see anybody being interested in running a general
purpose set of applications on a processor like this. It's not meant
for it," he said. "The intention of this was never to compete with the
standard desktop type of processor."

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I wonder if the interviewer asked about Macintosh.

RM