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IBM shrinks SRAM cell for future chip generation
News IBM has unveiled what it says is the first working static random access memory cell for a future generation in chip manufacturing, based on a 22nm scale. Although the next generation of chip manufacturing is based on the 32nm scale (the current...
[August 18, 2008, 17:23]
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]
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 to debut in IBM desktop
Talkback No more everlasting downloads, no more crappy streaming, just crystal clear Hi-def content from my Cell based SONY HDTV and home server. Can the Cell processor make my dream a reality by say year '08?
[December 4, 2004, 3:53]
IBM bets on CIGS with solar-cell deal
News Thin-film cells are less efficient at converting sunlight to electricity than silicon, but they require much less material to produce a cell, making them cost-competitive. Again by modifying chip-manufacturing technology, IBM created a cooling...
[June 16, 2008, 8:49]
Next Xbox will sport IBM chip
News IBM Microelectronics, IBM's chip arm, is working with Sony and Toshiba to create a new kind of processor, dubbed Cell. It's possible that Microsoft could also switch processors and use an IBM chip as its main processor for Xbox.
[November 4, 2003, 9:00]
US judge views Apple and IBM as chip rivals
News Of course, the court recognises that IBM does not sell MP3 players or cell phones that compete with the iPod or iPhone. Despite the fact that Apple has yet to produce an iPhone chip based on its own design, and that IBM doesn't design smartphone...
[November 26, 2008, 11:34]
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. So far the chip triumvirate of IBM, Sony and Toshiba, which pledged $400m to the project and sent engineers...
[August 6, 2002, 13:07]
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]
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]
IBM shows Cell blade in action
News This requires a huge amount of data processing, but a blade server using the nine-core Cell chip is well equipped to handle such a workload, according to Utz Bacher, team leader for IBM's Linux on Cell development team.
[March 10, 2006, 10:05]
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]
PlayStation 3 chip to debut in IBM desktop
News Cell will also incorporate new power-saving techniques and allow for on-chip systems to protect copyright works, according to the statement. Sony and partners IBM and Toshiba said in a joint statement that IBM is ready to begin pilot production...
[December 2, 2004, 10:45]
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]
IBM to share chip intelligence
News Although he declined to discuss specifics, Bijan Davari, vice president of semiconductor development at IBM Microelectronics, said Cell chips would be "optimized for high-speed video as well as various other communication to the Internet.
[April 2, 2002, 15:27]
PlayStation 3 chip to power supercomputers
News That is the pledge of one of the chief architects of the Cell, jointly developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, who on Friday sought to allay fears that the chip would create huge programming challenges for game developers just starting to learn their...
[December 6, 2004, 7:35]
PlayStation chip sharpens IBM's BladeCenter
News IBM introduced its overhauled blade server line on Wednesday, upgrading its core components and touting forthcoming options based on Xeon, PowerPC and Cell chips at the same time. Although IBM said it will sell the Cell blade under special...
[February 9, 2006, 8:25]
Microsoft chips in for Xbox Next
News Doherty speculated that Microsoft's IBM-flavoured processor probably wouldn't represent as radical a departure as Cell, but that the chip would differ from the silicon found in Macs. PowerPC concepts will also be the basis of the Cell processor...
[November 10, 2003, 12:20]
Samsung to share IBM's chips
News IBM, Sony and Toshiba are collaborating on chip design and manufacturing efforts related to Cell, a new kind of processor that's expected to power the next Sony PlayStation, among other devices. Last month, Sony invested $325m with IBM to help...
[March 8, 2004, 9:30]
Sony to sink £1bn into 'Cell' console chip
News Since early 2001, Sony Computer Entertainment, IBM and Toshiba have teamed to develop Cell, a new multimedia processor touted as a "supercomputer on a chip". In order to increase its performance, Cell will boast a multicore architecture, in which a...
[April 24, 2003, 7:31]
