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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 ...
“As a general-purpose processor, the Cell might run 10 times slower than what IBM is claiming,” he said. Meanwhile, the Cells bus, which is designed by Rambus Inc., is also application ...
Introducing the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Processor — Part II: The Cell Architecture Part 2 of Hannibal's coverage of the new Cell processor from IBM, Sony, and … ...
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, ...
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 ...
IBM is set to support open-source computing designs by revealing key details of its Cell processor. The processor which is being co-designed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba is set to power Sony’s ...
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 ...
According to Rambus, FlexIO is capable of running up to 6.4 GHz data rates providing bandwidth more than four times faster than best-of-class processor buses available today. XDR data rates will ...
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 ...
In testing, a gain cell-powered device could store data for over an hour. This is miles better than anything DRAM can do, which needs to be refreshed every 64ms.