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  Computer technology is seems to be on the verge of the next step in evolution. With the advent of universal busses - USB printers and drives and high speed connectivity, there is currently a design being developed for a processor which will utilize the power of multiple cells. Distributed computing is making headway as a method for spreading computational tasks across a myriad of networked computers. An offspring of this technology, the "cell processor" will actually be simulating the way biological cells cooperate with each other to form a singular bodily structure - sound familiar? The developers, IBM, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Toshiba intend to create a chip archecture that will let individual processors interconnect with each other to create a larger unified system. The Blue Gene   The "cell-chip" is scheduled to make it's debut in 2005 with the release of the Sony's new Playstation . If successful, the technology will be implemented into a variety of products, including PCs, PDAs, cellular phones, internet appliances, gateways, switches and routers. The designers are promising a processor with performance speeds of up to two teraflops (2 trillion instructions per second),5000 times the speed of a personal computer, operate at relatively low power levels, and provide built-in broadband Internet connectivity.
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