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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What's odd is that Sony didn't make any claims of the PS3 slim being faster at launch and the "boost" in processing speed in the ...

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 ...

A state-of-the-art IBM manufacturing plant located in East Fishkill, N.Y., has become the first facility to produce the 65 nanometer (nm) Cell Broadband Engine, the chip maker announced Monday. The ...

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 ...

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 ...