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IBM, Toshiba And Sony Plan Next Generation Cell Chip
News IBM, Sony and Toshiba in Thursday announced that they are renewing their joint technology alliance for another five years and hinted that they see it expanding beyond the development of the next generation of Cell processors.
[January 12, 2006, 12:25]
Sony To Sell Chip Facility To Toshiba
News The equipment will be used by their semiconductor joint venture that will make high-performance Cell chips and RSX graphic chips, both used in Sony's PlayStation 3 game console, as well as other microchips that go into Toshiba products.
[February 20, 2008, 7:46]
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 Debut In IBM Desktop
News Sony and partners IBM and Toshiba said in a joint statement that IBM is ready to begin pilot production next year on the "Cell" processor jointly developed by the companies. Both Sony and Toshiba expect to begin selling high-definition TV sets...
[December 2, 2004, 10:45]
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 Since early 2001, Sony Computer Entertainment, IBM and Toshiba have teamed to develop Cell, touted as a "supercomputer on a chip". Sony and development partner Toshiba have said they plan to use Cell technology in other products besides the...
[October 9, 2003, 17:15]
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]
Sony To Sink £1bn Into 'Cell' Console Chip
News Toshiba, a partner in the development of Cell, also hinted that it aims to use the chip in next-generation consumer devices, possibly set-top boxes, digital broadcast decoders, high-definition TVs, hard-disk recorders and mobile phones.
[April 24, 2003, 7:31]
PlayStation 3 To Get 'Yellowstone'
News Last November, Toshiba took out a licence to manufacture Yellowstone-style memory, necessary for the Cell processor to take advantage of the technology. Sony and Toshiba have licensed technology from Rambus that likely will be incorporated into a...
[January 7, 2003, 8:06]
AMD Exposes Flash Plans
News These chips will be capable of being inserted into cell phones, which typically use NOR flash memory, the kind made by Intel and AMD, and camera flash cards, which usually use NAND flash, made by Samsung and Toshiba.
[November 9, 2004, 9:38]
IBM To Share Chip Intelligence
News Sony and Toshiba are expanding an alliance with IBM that will give the companies access to its chip breakthroughs while making the tech giant more of a player in the burgeoning market for consumer electronics.
[April 2, 2002, 15:27]
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]
'Supercomputer On A Chip' Promised By Cell Processor
News IBM, Sony and Toshiba will reveal details on the new Cell processor architecture for the first time later on Monday at the International Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco. Toshiba has said it will produce a high definition...
[February 7, 2005, 15:50]
Cell Processor Unveiled
News Engineers from Sony, IBM and Toshiba revealed those and other specifications for the Cell processor during a press conference at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, where technical papers on the Cell design will be presented this week.
[February 8, 2005, 9:05]
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]
New Chip To Bring Talkies To Handhelds
News On Monday, Toshiba America Electronic Components announced its TC35273XB chip. The integrated memory is what sets this chip apart from others, according to Toshiba. We know that battery life is always key with portable devices," said Andrew Burt...
[January 15, 2001, 13:02]
Microsoft Chips In For Xbox Next
News The arrangement is likely to mirror Sony's relationship with IBM and Toshiba to create the Cell processor slated for use in the next big release of the PlayStation game console, said analysts and sources close to the companies.
[November 10, 2003, 12:20]
Sony Targets Businesses With IP Video Kit
News IBM and Toshiba have collaborated with the Japanese company to produce the chip, which will power a range of computers from business PCs to Sony's PlayStation 3. The company is moving to "shake up" its business processes from the bottom as it...
[March 9, 2005, 15:05]
GameCube Chip Shipments Reach 10 Million
News The Cell processor is being jointly developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, who have touted it as a "supercomputer on a chip. The PS2 is powered by the "Emotion Engine," a custom processor designed by Sony in conjunction with electronics conglomerate...
[September 20, 2002, 9:25]
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. They have already collaborated to create a new processor architecture, called Cell.
[April 14, 2002, 7:31]
