Sony, NXP plan contactless IC chip venture
475868
Sony and NXP Semiconductors have reached basic agreement on forming a joint venture to develop, manufacture and sell chips that combine Sony's Felica and Philips' Mifare contactless smartcard platforms. NXP wasÂ spun off from PhilipsÂ in Sept. this year.
273067
IBM, Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. on Monday unveiled some key details on the powerful new &quot;Cell&quot; processor the three are jointly producing to run next-generation computers, game consoles and TVs.
210961
Texas Instruments has developed chips to support mini projectors and high-def video on cell phones.
163143
Once a semiconductor company, always a semiconductor company--but now it's known as NXP.
372203
IBM, Sony and Toshiba unveiled some of the key concepts of their jointly developed advanced microprocessor, code-named Cell, which is aimed at next-generation computing applications and digital consumer electronics.
159783
(InfoWorld) - The Cell processor sits at the heart of a high-performance computer from IBM and the PlayStation 3,Â and now Toshiba Corp. wants to put that power into mobile devices and cell phones. A roadmap for the processor on display by Toshiba at this week's Ceatec show in Japan shows a more powerful version of the chip under development for 2007. While details of the chip were not available, a source close to Toshiba said that the new device will be manufactured using more advanced 65-nanometer production technology. The current chips are being made on a 90-nanometer line and the switch will mean lower power consumption and increased performance. Looking further ahead the roadmap calls for further increases in power between next year and the end of the decade. At the same time "mid-class" versions of the processor are also envisaged for 2008 and beyond and a mobile version in 2010. The Cell chip is the product of a joint development project by Toshiba, IBM, Sony Corp. and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI). Each chip contains a main processor and eight sub-processors to deliver about 200G Flops (floating point operations per second) of power. It will make its consumer debut next month when SCEI puts the PlayStation 3 on sale in Japan and the U.S. but Toshiba has plans for the chip in other parts of the living room. "As the first application we are focused on the consumer electronics area such as media servers or something like that but Cell itself is not restricted to that area," said Mitsuo Saito, chief fellow at Toshiba's semiconductor company and one of the key creators of the chip, in an interview at Ceatec. "Maybe other partners are going onto the very high-end. We are focusing on the low power area. One is for more mobile types of applications such as small games or some mobile phone-like systems," he said. When the Cell partners disclosed details of the chip in 2004 both Toshiba and Sony said they planned to put the device into consumer electronics products by 2006. Toshiba said its plans have been delayed but remain very much in-place while Sony said it is currently concentrating on getting the Cell into the PlayStation 3 and will look at other uses once the games console is launched. Toshiba's Saito said the three partners are also collaborating on the software side so that Cell-based software won't end up tied to specific versions of the chip. "Also, maybe the most important thing is to have collaboration, he said. "Each type of Cell has to have the same basis of software so for this purpose we are doing a lot of effort to centralize software from the very small Cell to the very large one to have a uniform world. It's our plan to expand to that kind of area. That is a very important aspect so we are collaborating together, three companies, to enhance the Cell world." Â  Additional reporting by Sumner Lemon.
372372
IBM , 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.
577956
Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said on Tuesday it  would join a group led by International Business Machines Corp   to develop system chips using 32-nanometre circuitry,  as chip makers increasingly team up to cut development costs.
272752
By Bangkok Post, Thailand  Sep. 7--Philips Electronics (Thailand) Ltd will transfer all 3,400 of its  semiconductor sales and marketing staff to a newly established company,  Philips Semiconductors SMO, the sales and marketing arm of NXP Semiconductors,  on Oct 1.
147595
Applied Digital Solutions is about to test Wall Streetâs interest in technology to implant radio chips in humans with an I.P.O. in its nascent business, the VeriChip Corporation.
763923
Details of the chip designed to power Sony's PlayStation 3 console will be released on Monday.
251536
A long-awaited microprocessor developed by IBM Corp., Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. will go into early production next year and start appearing in video game consoles, high-definition TVs and home servers in 2006, the companies said Monday.
673255
Hoping to tap into the growth of wireless networks across college campuses, other public spaces and within homes, Sony Corp. will announce Tuesday a new pocket-sized gadget for instant messaging and other Internet-based communications.
719369
Technical details of the new low-power mobile CPU, expected to ship this year, are being released at a chip conference this week.
412441
Cell, RSX production transferred Sony is to sell the chip manufacturing plant it currently uses to produce Cell processors for the PlayStation 3 games console to Toshiba, part of a scheme that will see the two Japanese giants create an Â¥100m ($858,000) chip-making joint-venture.â¦
218024
Sony and nVidia are to co-develop a graphics engine to power graphics cards and entertainment consoles. The chip will be used in nVidia&#39;s GeForce cards which will power forthcoming consumer devices from Sony
410183
Initial versions of PlayStation 3 chip will not be produced with a cutting-edge chip-making technology. The four companies developing the Cell consumer electronics microprocessor released a few more details