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...”, will be officially introduced in March 2005 at San Francisco’s microprocessor conference. IBM, Sony and Toshiba spent four years constructing and revamping their “Cell”. This “Cell” functions in a very different manner from the chips used in the majority of the world’s computers today. Most of these computers use Intel chips. The trio’s “Cell” is designed to function most effectively in a networked environment which as we know is “grid computing”. On a local area network or the Internet, the “Cell” can share computing resources with other devices powered by “Cell”. The new “Cell” will offer much more computing power than other chips. This is possible because the chip allows you to borrow computing power from resources which are idle at that time. When your computer is idle, your resources will be shared with other computers on the network. The “Cell” as it is designed makes it very suitable for Engineering or Design work. Because of the “cell’s” ability to be manufactured cheaply, it can be used on much less powerful devices such as Playstation 3, PDAs, TV sets and digital cameras....