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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 ...

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 ...

The Cell processor technology, which uses eight distinct chips, was developed in a three-way partnership that included IBM, Sony and Toshiba.

IBM Corp. is using a cluster of prototype blade servers built around its multicore Cell microprocessor to breathe life into a three-dimensional model of a beating human heart at the Cebit trade ...

Each Cell chip has a straightforward PowerPC 970-like processing core, called the Power processor element (PPE), that can run Linux and other readily available software.

Understanding the Cell CPU. ... Cell's SPEs being Altivec/VMX derived is a benefit, which should mean that the ISA is more familiar to developers working on any POWER based architecture, ...

The multi-core attributes of Cell, plus the proprietary 'Synergistic Processing Elements' (SPEs) for the chips provide the means to exploit parallelism and finely tune each box for the specific ...

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A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. Programmers grappling with the Cell chip--the processor behind the Playstation 3 and some high-definition TVs--can get a helping hand ...