Comments on: PS3’s Cell Processor Faces Patent Challenge http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ps3s-cell-processor-faces-patent-challenge/ Upgrade Your Lifestyle Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:06:50 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Callum Dickinson http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ps3s-cell-processor-faces-patent-challenge/#comment-54926 Callum Dickinson Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:36:48 +0000 #comment-54926 If Sony actually mentions the 1991 patent and the Patent Office deems it not being a threat aswell, then Parallel have no chance of winning this. At all. If Sony actually mentions the 1991 patent and the Patent Office deems it not being a threat aswell, then Parallel have no chance of winning this. At all.

]]> By: Glen Zabriskie http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ps3s-cell-processor-faces-patent-challenge/#comment-54925 Glen Zabriskie Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:22:36 +0000 #comment-54925 Someone at Parallel Processing Corp. needs to GOOGLE "Atari Transputer Workstation" and STFU!<br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation" target="_blank" ref="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Work...</a> Someone at Parallel Processing Corp. needs to GOOGLE “Atari Transputer Workstation” and STFU!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Work...

]]> By: benjamin http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ps3s-cell-processor-faces-patent-challenge/#comment-54924 benjamin Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:12:13 +0000 #comment-54924 "I thought of it first! I win! Pay me for my ideas! Waa!!!" <br /> <br /> Has anyone even heard of this company? It's obvious they're on welfare, selling their children for crack and sex to fund their outrageous cable and cell phone bills. These people should be hung, or better... “I thought of it first! I win! Pay me for my ideas! Waa!!!”

Has anyone even heard of this company? It's obvious they're on welfare, selling their children for crack and sex to fund their outrageous cable and cell phone bills. These people should be hung, or better…

]]> By: V. Anderson http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ps3s-cell-processor-faces-patent-challenge/#comment-54923 V. Anderson Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:56:26 +0000 #comment-54923 Seems to me this "improvement" should be intuitively obvious. Unless STI copied the method for sorting out instruction processing strategies, there should not be a problem. Even if they did, I suspect it was published somewhere, before the 1991 patent. Most of us seriously into computer science had daydreamed of this sort of thing years ago when we were clustering processors to get data center cpu power up. No one should be allowed to patent an idea, unless they can at least prototype it, and get the prototype to actually work. If Parallel processing prototyped this in 1991, they have had sixteen years to develop and market it. That is long enough. On the other hand if Parallel processing actually builds and sells micro processors with the capabilities of the STI devices, and they can prove STI is waiting on the patent to expire, they should get a nice check. Terminating the technology is pretty irresponsible. If the US does not stop the patent non-sense, we are going to end up unable to develop or use anything technical here. Seems to me this “improvement” should be intuitively obvious. Unless STI copied the method for sorting out instruction processing strategies, there should not be a problem. Even if they did, I suspect it was published somewhere, before the 1991 patent. Most of us seriously into computer science had daydreamed of this sort of thing years ago when we were clustering processors to get data center cpu power up. No one should be allowed to patent an idea, unless they can at least prototype it, and get the prototype to actually work. If Parallel processing prototyped this in 1991, they have had sixteen years to develop and market it. That is long enough. On the other hand if Parallel processing actually builds and sells micro processors with the capabilities of the STI devices, and they can prove STI is waiting on the patent to expire, they should get a nice check. Terminating the technology is pretty irresponsible. If the US does not stop the patent non-sense, we are going to end up unable to develop or use anything technical here.

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