Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

In unveiling the specs for the Dual Cell-Based Blade, Mercury demonstrated how it is going beyond gaming applications to become the first vendor to use the Cell technology to address industrial, ...

Televisions featuring Sony's Cell networked processor will be on the market by 2006, according to Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei, who suggested that the next-generation TVs could offer functionality similar ...

IBM appears to be having a tough time making a sufficient number of working copies of its Cell processor, perhaps causing further problems for Sony's PlayStation 3. IBM Vice President of Semiconductor ...

The company is also preparing to introduce its new POWER 6 processor. IBM unveiled a nine-core IBM Cell blade, a dual-core POWER processor-based BladeCenterJS21 and an ultra low-power Intel-based ...

Toshiba raised the bar for rival TV vendors and set-top box makers on Monday, showing off its new Cell Regza television, which harnesses the Cell processor to decode and record multiple ...

In order that it better promote the new Cell microprocessor, IBM is introducing design services for its clients and will provide a Cell simulation environment available through IBM E&TS and Deep ...

Unit's 200-GFLOPS performance shines in mobile military applications The PowerBlock 200 is presented as the first rugged computer using the 64-bit IBM Cell Broadband Engine processor. Taking advantage ...

When chips are put to other uses, sometimes goodness ensues – that’s the conclusion of braniacs from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California about their experiments with Sony PlayStation 3 ...

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 ...