“The Cell is good for ray tracing, graphics and video editing [applications],” Krewell said. “Its possible that Apple would do a media PC with the Cell as a second media processor.

The Cell BE processor contains eight synergistic processing elements meant to provide unmatched performance levels in many computationally intense applications at peak performance in excess of 180 ...

Sony and IBM’s new Cell processor (the one that will go into the next Playstation and future Toshiba and Sony televisions) is getting a lot of well-deserved buzz at the moment. It may not end up ...

Based on the IBM Cell BE (Broadband Engine) processor, the Dual Cell-Based Blade is designed to address computationally intensive applications in aerospace and defense, seismic, semiconductor test ...

TOKYO — Sony Corp., Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and IBM Corp. jointly announced that the first application of the Cell processor will be a workstation for a digital content creation. They also ...

IBM’s shitcanning the Cell processor line—you know, the chip that’s in the PS3 and uh, Toshiba laptops and TVs—according to their VP of Deep Computing, making the current PowerXCell 8i the ...

IBM appears to be having a tough time making a sufficient number of working copies of its Cell processor, perhaps causing further problems for Sony's PlayStation 3. IBM Vice President of ...

Regardless, the most crucial trait of gain cell memory is its higher storage capacity ceiling, which is very important for low-level caches. Bigger caches result in less time for the CPU or GPU to ...

IBM is planning to reveal details on Cell to help support open-source computing designs.

The Cell processor consists of a general-purpose POWERPC processor core connected to eight special-purpose DSP cores. These DSP cores, which IBM calls "synergistic processing elements" (SPE), but ...

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In today's session, IBM introduced the overall architecture of the Cell processor. Unfortunately, they didn't include many more microarchitectural details in today's session than they did in ...