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New Sony chip to power Clie
News The device is also noteworthy because it is the first handheld to use a chip developed by Sony in the same Nagasaki plant where it is manufacturing the chip that will power the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3 game console.
[July 18, 2003, 11:11]
News Burst: IBM, Sony, Toshiba to spend $400m on new chip
News IBM, Sony and Toshiba announced on Monday plans to develop a new kind of microchip specially suited for broadband networks and aimed at consumer computing and electronics devices. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum
[March 12, 2001, 10:55]
New Transmeta chip aims for speed
News Transmeta has landed its chip in machines sold by Sony, Sharp and Hewlett-Packard, among other manufacturers. Transmeta's TM8000 chip will feature an entirely new architecture, executives say, but it will also share some design ideas with the...
[March 10, 2003, 11:58]
PlayStation 3 chip to debut in IBM desktop
News Sony revealed new details on Monday on the chip that will power the next PlayStation and said development is on track to deliver products based on the chip next year. Cell will also incorporate new power-saving techniques and allow for on-chip...
[December 2, 2004, 10:45]
Sony to sink £1bn into 'Cell' console chip
News The new chip, touted to be a thousand times more powerful than the processor in a PlayStation2, will be built on an advanced fabrication line in Japan, according to Sony. Since early 2001, Sony Computer Entertainment, IBM and Toshiba have teamed to...
[April 24, 2003, 7:31]
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]
PlayStation 3 chip to arrive in 2005
News Sony also said it is planning to begin manufacturing a new chip for the PlayStation 2 this month, shrinking the existing architecture to a 90-nanometre manufacturing process. The new chip combines the console's microprocessor and graphics processor...
[October 9, 2003, 17:15]
Sony aims to prove that bigger is better
News The new Vaio GRX series, which is also outfitted with Intel's new Pentium 4-M chip for notebooks, high-end graphics and large hard drives, is designed to appeal to buyers who want to view or edit video and use other multimedia-oriented...
[March 18, 2002, 15:57]
Chip heavyweights hope alliance adds up
News The alliance's main competitor is likely to be IBM, which recently expanded an existing chip pact with Sony and Toshiba. The companies' main focus will be on creating new manufacturing techniques that allow them to produce more advanced "system-on...
[April 14, 2002, 7:31]
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. In addition, the new chip will have a dual power supply that increases memory...
[January 2, 2007, 8:23]
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. The chip is widely believed to be destined for the next Sony PlayStation. It's possible that Microsoft could also switch...
[November 4, 2003, 9:00]
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. The company has begun licensing its PowerPC chip...
[March 8, 2004, 9:30]
PC Expo 2000 roundup
News AMD hammering at 64-bit desktops Sampling of 64-bit server chip due to PC makers by early 2001. IT Week: Sony shows off handheld at PC Expo Sony displayed its much-hyped take on the classic Palm handheld design at the PC Expo show in New York this...
[June 27, 2000, 9:47]
Black-market tool for Xbox mod squad
News The new X-ecuter chip for the Xbox includes several new design components, including a layout that requires soldering of only nine connection points, compared with 20 in the first Xbox mod chips. Another "mod chip" that allows Microsoft's Xbox...
[August 8, 2002, 13:55]
Transmeta explores embedded market
News Although the company unveiled the technological theory behind Crusoe in January 2000, products containing the chip didn't hit the market until Sony released a Vaio notebook in Japan in October 2000. Nearly every major Japanese notebook manufacturer...
[October 4, 2001, 9:39]
Desktop-based notebooks lead sales
News Dell and Sony, which each offer one or two Pentium 4 models, are expected to expand their use of the chip. The desktop version of the same chip costs $193, while Intel's 2.53GHz Pentium 4 lists for $243 and its 2.8GHz for $401.
[January 9, 2003, 15:12]
Notebooks: top 5s review
Reviews The difference in clock speed between the Dell and Acer systems says a lot about the efficiency of the new Pentium M chip - and points up a problem Intel may encounter when marketing it to a public used to judging CPU performance on clock speed.
[March 14, 2003, 10:08]
Microsoft chips in for Xbox Next
News There's a multibillion-dollar company moving into the chip business: Microsoft. The details on how these different chip agreements will work remains vague at this point. These companies -- without their own chip-fabrication factories, or "fabs...
[November 10, 2003, 12:20]
UPDATE: Transmeta's big blow from Big Blue
News The PictureBook is based on a 600MHz Crusoe TM5600 chip. Big Blue said it is still evaluating Transmeta's low-power chip technology for future products. The question now is will IBM's decision injure Transmeta's ability to sign up other PC...
[November 2, 2000, 10:06]
Reports on Xbox delay premature
News Sony also recently announced an interim update to the PS2, the PSX home-entertainment appliance, which should add some new life to the brand, according to Peter Glaskowsky, editor in chief of industry newsletter Microprocessor Report.
[June 23, 2003, 8:14]
