Is the Terminator, a Sony Playstation at heart?

Posted by on June 9, 2008 at 7:39 am.

Will we have Sony to blame when computers become self-aware and start taking over the earth? I came across a news story today that leads me to think, “Yeah, maybe.”

Military Supercomputer Sets Record

Here is the piece that caught my attention.

“The Roadrunner is based on a radical design that includes 12,960 chips that are an improved version of an I.B.M. Cell microprocessor, a parallel processing chip originally created for Sony’s PlayStation 3 video-game machine. The Sony chips are used as accelerators, or turbochargers, for portions of calculations.”

Check out the full story on The New York Times Website

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