A group of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been using the Sony Playstation 3 for a course on parallel processing architectures. It is the Cell microprocessor that lies ...

In a recent article at Electronic News, Ed Sperling interviews Tom Reeves, VP of semiconductor and technology services at IBM, about the latest breakthroughs in chip fabrication technology and where ...

Despite the Cell processor being a joint venture of Sony, Toshiba and IBM, Sony is taking the fall in a lawsuit by Parallel Processing Corporation. PPC filed a patent back in 1991 for “synchronised ...

One of the primary reasons for the lack of PS3 backward support on the PS5 is the complex nature of emulating the PS3’s unique Cell processor architecture. Unlike the more standard x86 architecture ...

A blogger is reporting that a Japanese game site reported that Sony is considering using the PS3's existing cell processor with the upcoming PS4, which isn't due out for a couple of years. David ...

The impending PS4, which we last heard was coming in 2010, might be based on the same Cell processor that currently powers the PS3. Japanese tech site PC Watch said that Sony will forgo designing a ...

At the end of its E3 conference today, Sony gave viewers an oblique glimpse into its next-generation console plans. Toward the end of the press conference, Sony Chief Technical Officer Masa Chinati ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - March 21, 2006 - AGEIA TM Technologies, Inc., the pioneer in hardware-accelerated physics for games, today announced that the latest version of AGEIA PhysX TM SDK version 2.4 ...

Guerrilla Games co-director and technical director Michiel van der Leeuw says speaking with GameInformer in a recent interview said the PlayStation 3's Cell CPU is more powerful than current Intel ...

Hopes have been raised that Sony will cut the price of the PlayStation 3 in 2008 after IBM unveiled a smaller, cheaper and more efficient version of its PS3 Cell processor. The new IBM Cell BE ...

SAN FRANCISCO--The chip that will run the next version of the PlayStation video game machine will have nine processor cores and run faster than 4GHz, the chip's designers revealed Monday. Engineers ...