IBM Shops Cell Processor to Indie Game Developers
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This morning, IBM, in conjunction with Vivendi game developer High Moon Studios and Canadian high-performance developer RapidMind,  launched a coast-to-coast event to interest developers into building a new gaming platform around the Cell.
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IBM IBM.N, Sony Corp. 6758.T and  Toshiba Corp. 6502.T on Monday revealed their plans for the  powerful new "Cell" processor the three are jointly producing  to run next-generation computers, game consoles and  televisions.
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Engineers at NEC have developed a processor for cellular telephones that includes three ARM processor cores in a single chip, a moved aimed at improving the multimedia capabilities of cell phones.
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Chips based on a new architecture known as Isaiah  could help little-known Via Technologies gain some ground in the industry.
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The four companies developing the Cell microprocessor released a few more details about the chip on Monday -- and with them a surprise: first generation versions of the device won't be built on a cutting edge production technology into which the companies have sunk billions of dollars, but on a technology already in widespread use today.
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A California software developer turns instant message windows into a platform for video games.
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IBM Corp. said it has shipped the first microprocessors that will be used to power Nintendo Co.'s upcoming Wii video game console.
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I was pretty amazed to see 3D graphics coming to mobile phones, and now it looks like TV is coming to them too! Texas Instruments has started work on a chip that
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A number of chip manufacturers are showing Google's Android software platform for mobile phones running on prototype or proof-of-concept phones at the Mobile World Congress.
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AMD chips in Los Alamos lab's Roadrunner system to be augmented with the PlayStation's processing brains.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM has started selling the first computer based on its multicore Cell processor, targeting organizations that run compute-intensive tasks like medical imaging or oil exploration. The Cell chip wasÂ co-developed with Sony and ToshibaÂ and originally designed for video-game consoles. IBM is offering its version of the chip, called the Cell Broadband Engine, in a blade system for customers who want high performance computing power combined with fast graphics performance. Called the BladeCenter QS20, IBM's new system is also aimed at companies in the digital animation, aerospace, defense, communications, and gas industries. Pricing for each QS20 blade starts at $18,995, an IBM spokeswoman said. The Cell processor consists of an IBM PowerPC processor core combined with eight specialized vector processors. IBM says the processor can deliver "supercomputer-like performance," although most existing applications will likely have to be rewritten to take full advantage of the Cell's architecture. The companyÂ demonstrated a cluster of prototype Cell blade serversÂ at the Cebit trade show in Germany this year. One of the applications on show allowed visitors to view a 3D model of a beating heart, and to turn it around and cut it into cross-sections using a mouse. Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute said they took a few months to port the application to the Cell system, since the program had to be divided into many independent, parallel tasks. The base configuration of the QS20 includes two cell processors each running at 2.3GHz, 1GB of memory (512MB per processor), a 40GB hard drive, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports and 1 or 2 Infiniband adapters connected with PCI-Express. IBM suggests using Red Hat's Fedora 5 Linux OS. Test versions of the blade server have been running at various organizations, including the University of Manchester in the U.K, IBM said. The university said it picked the Cell system because it offers faster performance while occupying less space and using less power. In a hospital setting, the BladeCenter QS20 could reduce from minutes to seconds the amount of time it takes for doctors to compare and map 3D medical images, according to IBM. In aerospace and defense it can make radars more sensitive and more accurate, it said. More information isÂ available here.
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The company&#39;s joint announcement with IBM and Toshiba that the PS3&#39;s processor, &#39;Cell&#39;, will be detailed at February 2005&#39;s International Solid State Circuits Conference focuses on the chip&#39;s features.
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IBM IBM.N, Sony Corp. 6758.T and  Toshiba Corp. 6502.T on Monday unveiled some key details on  the powerful new "Cell" processor the three are jointly  producing to run next-generation computers, game consoles and  TVs.
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InfoWorld - IBM&#160;is pulling out the heavy artillery in its quest to build custom chips for both telephony backbone and handheld wireless devices, announcing a processor family built with silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology that is usually reserved for server processors.
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A handful of chip makers showed Monday how a mobile device running Google Inc.'s Android operating system might look.
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Microsoft on Wednesday revealed that it has made its software development environment for small, embedded processors available for chipmaker Analog Devices' Blackfin platform. via EETimes
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SAN FRANCISCO--The &quot;Cell&quot; processor that will power the next version of the PlayStation game console will also be adaptable for advanced scientific research, but you won&#39;t have to be a rocket scientist to program it.