PlayStation 3 Cell chip details

Posted on Saturday, February 05 2005 @ 23:36 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Engineers from Sony, IBM and Toshiba will soon provide more details on the Cell processor that will be used in Sony's PlayStation 3. But here are already some details discovered by an analyst.

Tom Halfhill of the Microprocessor Report has studied patents and other documents relating to Cell, which will be unveiled Monday at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. He sees a number of chip breakthroughs likely to dramatically boost computing power in everything from game machines to cell phones.

More info at ZDNet

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