Sony facing litigation over Cell Processor
- Posted July 31st, 2007 by
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Sony may be in deep water again over patent infringement. Parallel Processing, a California based company, filed a lawsuit on July 26th in a US District Court against Sony on the grounds that the company knowingly infringed upon patent number 5,056,000, which was filed in October 2001.
The patent dubbed "Synchronized Parallel Processing with Shared Memory" lays out the groundwork for a processor quite similar to the Cell, which divides up a task into separate pieces to be run by parallel processors, and then placed back together again as a "final" product.
The plaintiff demands damages be rewarded, along with all attorney fees and interest lost. On an even scarier note, they also want any item containing a Cell Processor to be recalled and destroyed, including every PlayStation 3 sold. Hopefully, common sense will prevail as Sony's team of lawyers prepare for another potentially long and drawn out case.
Source: Next-Gen.biz
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mystik4l06
- 9:56pm EDT - July 30th, 2007
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every PS3 sold to be destroyed? lmao hahaha get the fuk outta hea...b!tch comes to my house i will shoot them and say it was self defense and place a knife on their hands...fuk that 5h!t
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mystik4l06
- 9:58pm EDT - July 30th, 2007
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not letting the money i wasted on my ps3 go down the drain because of a stupid lawsuit. this company is broke and is just looking for some money...how come they place this lawsuit now? after sony is making money out of the ps3's? and not when it was in its prototype stage when it was clearly stated that it was going to have this hardware...fuk that 5h!t
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cashville
- 10:36pm EDT - July 30th, 2007
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lol funny sh!t ! huh this this another bribe by microsoft to dominate gaming world ? just funy how lawsuit can state that every console sold should be destroyed ! is this early april fool ! lmfaoo fck outta here .. SONY WILL BEAT THE CASE ! just like they did with rumble ...
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hockeydude30
- 10:43pm EDT - July 30th, 2007
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There is no way they are going to take my PS3 and destroy it, not happening.
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Anim3Fr33K
- 11:32pm EDT - July 30th, 2007
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Sony hits 6mill sales and suddenly they realise after 6 years some one has infringed there coppy right, i think not, also note the "quite similar" not exactly the same, same s#!t happend with the chearch with all similar notice now that went away, M$ is just paying people to cause sony truble
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jams
- 11:46pm EDT - July 30th, 2007
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Why is this even in the news? Cell is not produced by Sony, its produced by IBM, so if anyone is infringing - it's them. True, It was a joint development of IBM/Sony/Toshiba, but this news stinks so much I don't know why is it reported on at all.
BTW should all IBM Cell Blade servers be recalled and destroyed too???
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Byuu
- 12:38am EDT - July 31st, 2007
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"The patent dubbed "Synchronized Parallel Processing with Shared Memory" lays out the groundwork for a processor quite similar to the Cell". This will be a no brainer, it's like heinz sueing another company making baked beans that are similar to theirs. And by using the word similar it is not the same, you can only sue someone if its of same design. Not similar design, again its like sueing someone for creating a pair of headphones just because they both have two ear pieces.
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ldksparda21
- 2:12am EDT - July 31st, 2007
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sounds like someone highered by MS. and by the way sony is just one company part of a team of companies that created the cell
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