Cell is a short form of: Cell Broadband Engine Architecture. It is a multicore multiprocessor, scalable via vector processing, for general purpose and multimedia uses, developed jointly by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba. The first major commercial use is in Sony's PlayStation 3 game console. The project's budget is estimated at $400 million.
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- Cell Microprocessor Growing entry, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
- IBM to Help Others Integrate Cell Processor Will offer design services to help firms use Cells in many electronic products, more so where image use is high: industrial, medical, aerospace, defense. [Sci-Tech Today]
- The Cell of a New Machine Is the new chip as revolutionary as proponents claim? [Economist.com]
- Holy Chip! How Sony and IBM may remake entertainment. [Forbes.com]
- Introducing the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Processor: Part I: The SIMD Processing Units Technical analysis and overview. [Ars Technica]
- Introducing the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Processor: Part II: The Cell Architecture Technical analysis and overview. [Ars Technica]
- IBM's Octopiler, or, Why the PS3 is Running Late Cell's greatest strength and weakness: there's a lot of hardware on the chip, making programming hard, delaying PS3. New compiler intended to ease programming. [Ars Technica]