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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. Sony and partners IBM and Toshiba said in a joint statement that IBM is ready to...
[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 Sony claims it has developed the biggest notebook display seen so far. Sony says it's the first PC maker to offer a display of that expanse in a notebook. Click here for a full review of the Sony Vaio PCG-GRX316SP.
[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. Some analysts speculate Cell chips will end up in Sony's PlayStation 3 game console.
[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. IBM's Power6 processor will be able to exceed 5GHz (five gigahertz) in a high...
[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. The agreement, which is likely to produce a fresh round...
[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. Last month, Sony invested $325m with IBM to help...
[March 8, 2004, 9:30]
PC Expo 2000 Roundup
News 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 week. Palm, Handspring and Sony are playing nicely, but is there enough room for three makers of...
[June 27, 2000, 9:47]
Black-market Tool For Xbox Mod Squad
News Microsoft was implicated in the closure of an early mod chipmaker, but rival Sony has been the most visible console maker in fighting mod chips, filing several suits in the United Kingdom. A Canadian man was sentenced last month for selling mod...
[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. Toshiba, which helped start the trend, Dell and Sony are all expected to follow soon with their own next-generation desktop notebooks.
[January 9, 2003, 15:12]
Microsoft Chips In For Xbox Next
News Still, Microsoft could conceivably leverage its investment by using the chips in many products, similar to what Sony plans to do with Cell. The arrangement is likely to mirror Sony's relationship with IBM and Toshiba to create the Cell processor...
[November 10, 2003, 12:20]
UPDATE: Transmeta's Big Blow From Big Blue
News Transmeta, whose initial public offering of stock is planned for next week, has also come under fire for the relatively low performance of notebooks such as Sony's VAIO PictureBook notebook. Aside from Sony and NEC, which have Crusoe-based...
[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]
Ballmer Sets Launch Date For Xbox 2
News Sony also recently announced an interim update to the PS2, the PSX home-entertainment appliance, that should add some new life to the brand, according to Peter Glaskowsky, editor in chief of industry newsletter Microprocessor Report.
[June 20, 2003, 7:38]
