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IBM, Toshiba And Sony Plan Next Generation Cell Chip
News The Cell chip is as good as the Pentium, if not better, " he told an audience of industry analysts, according to an article in BusinessWeek. The original Cell chip was released in February 2005, and hailed as a 'supercomputer on a chip'.
[January 12, 2006, 12:25]
Sony To Sink £1bn Into 'Cell' Console Chip
News In order to increase its performance, Cell will boast a multicore architecture, in which a single chip may contain several stacked processor cores. Toshiba, a partner in the development of Cell, also hinted that it aims to use the chip in next...
[April 24, 2003, 7:31]
'Supercomputer On A Chip' Promised By Cell Processor
News Trailed as a 'supercomputer on a chip', the Cell is known to encompass many innovations in software and hardware design and will be the chip at the centre of next year's Sony Playstation 3. IBM, Sony and Toshiba will reveal details on the new Cell...
[February 7, 2005, 15:50]
'Supercomputer On A Chip' Promised By Cell Processor
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[February 12, 2005, 22:48]
'Supercomputer On A Chip' Promised By Cell Processor
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[February 7, 2005, 16:25]
IBM Puts Cell Chip To Work In Supercomputer
News IBM has delivered a "supercomputer-like" blade system based on the Cell processor it co-designed for Sony's PlayStation. The Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) processor was developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba for games consoles, starting from IBM's...
[September 13, 2006, 16:20]
PlayStation 3 Chip Nears Completion
News Collaborating engineers from IBM, Sony and Toshiba have wrapped up the design for the inner workings of a mysterious new chip called "Cell. Cell will likely use between four and 16 general-purpose processor cores per chip.
[August 6, 2002, 13:07]
Cell Processor Unveiled
News The three companies have been working on Cell for several years, promising to deliver a high-performance chip optimised for multimedia applications. Cell can process at 256 gigaflops, falling a wee bit short of marketing hyperbole calling it a...
[February 8, 2005, 9:05]
Clock Frequency Race Hots Up
News The first-generation Cell Broadband Engine chip, co-developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, has just appeared in Sony's PlayStation 3 game console and can run at 4GHz. IBM's Power6 processor will be able to exceed 5GHz (five gigahertz) in a high...
[January 2, 2007, 8:23]
PlayStation 3 Chip To Arrive In 2005
News Sony is planning to first install a test production line for the Cell chip in Nagasaki Prefecture. The Cell chip, planned to be a thousand times more powerful than the PS2's processor, will be built using a 65-nanometre process and 300mm silicon...
[October 9, 2003, 17:15]
Intel Chip Speeds Mobile Devices
News As part of its push into wireless, Intel on Wednesday unveiled a flash memory chip that promises to reduce the time it takes to get information from cell phones and handhelds. Flash is used inside devices such as handhelds and cell phones to store...
[September 27, 2001, 9:22]
IBM Drumming Up Cell Support
News Under a programme launched on Wednesday, the company will offer design services and consulting to manufacturers of electronics products to adopt the Cell processor, a multicore chip that will appear in Toshiba TV sets and the PlayStation 3.
[March 31, 2005, 9:15]
Flash Memory Begins To Fade
News Flash memory -- the chip technology used to store data and applications inside cell phones, industrial equipment and portable memory cards -- is facing a growing crisis, say engineers, analysts and semiconductor executives.
[March 27, 2003, 16:17]
Start-up Software Harnesses Processing Power
News PeakStream's development software product will let programmers take advantage of three chip advancements, said chief executive Neil Knox: multicore processors, increasingly powerful graphics chips and the Cell Broadband Engine chip co-developed by...
[September 18, 2006, 9:45]
US Urged To Take Supercomputing Beyond Clusters
Talkback The Cell Chip will be built on 65 nm process and may contain up to 1 billion transistors. By this time next year the Cell Processor should become available. The cell will be used for the Playstation 3 game console but should be usefull for...
[November 18, 2004, 23:11]
IBM, Infineon Show Off Next-gen Memory Progress
News In MRAM, a tiny magnetic field is created inside a memory cell on a chip. The computer then measures the electrical resistance exhibited by the magnetic field at any given moment to determine whether the cell should be read as a "1" or a "0", the...
[June 10, 2003, 7:38]
Magnetic Memory Chips Come To Market
News In MRAM, a tiny magnetic field is created inside a memory cell on a chip. Proponents say it could replace both flash memory, used inside cell phones and cameras, and DRAM, used inside computers to shuttle data to the processor.
[July 11, 2006, 8:20]
RF Micro Shrinks Phone Chip
News RF Micro Devices spokesman Michael Coady said the new chip designs are to meet the growing demand by cell phone makers for tinier components. Chipmaker RF Micro Devices on Monday unveiled what it claims is the smallest version yet of an integral...
[August 13, 2002, 8:16]
Intel's Bulverde Puts Muscle In Mobile Phones
News Intel has been looking to take away some of rival Texas Instruments' market share in the cell phone chip business, but the company has struggled. We designed these chips from the ground up for and with cell phone makers, and they focus on three...
[April 12, 2004, 10:50]
Mobile Hard Drive Revolution Proposed
News Handing more work to the drive would also trim costs significantly, Furness said, which should make the concept attractive to the burgeoning cell phone market. The semiconductor company is shopping around the idea that hard drives can do more than...
[October 11, 2004, 15:10]
