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IEEE Spectrum
January 2006
Samuel K. Moore |
Winner: Multimedia Monster Cell's nine processors make it a supercomputer on a chip. Cell, which is shorthand for Cell Broadband Engine Architecture, is a US $400 million joint effort of IBM, Sony, and Toshiba.   |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
David Kushner |
The Sony PS4: Less Dazzle, More Social The big makers of game consoles will renew their rivalry, and Sony has a chip on its shoulder |
AskMen.com
Bernie Alexander |
5 Things You Didn't Know About PlayStation 3 At the moment, the secrets surrounding the release of PS3 are being more closely guarded than nuclear launch codes. Nonetheless, we've learned quite a bit about what we can expect of this new toy. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Harry Goldstein |
Cure for the Multicore Blues Michael McCool has the prescription for programmers paralyzed by parallel processing. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
Guizzo & Goldstein |
Expressway To Your Skull PlayStation 3's ability to blast data between chips is one of the secrets to a mind-bending gaming experience. Sony has a lot staked on the success of the PS3 -- hundreds of millions of dollars, and maybe its future as the preeminent maker of consumer electronics. |
BusinessWeek
December 4, 2006
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
PlayStation 3: It's Got Game PS3 is a gamer's dream, but it disappoints as a home-entertainment device. |
InternetNews
November 25, 2009 |
A Different Kind of Cell Division at IBM IBM has confirmed the end of the road for its Cell Broadband Engine processor, the hybrid multicore processor used in Sony's PlayStation 3 console - and little else. |
InternetNews
February 21, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
IBM Offers Help To Get To The Heart Of Cell IBM is offering game developers wrestling with its advanced Cell Broadband Engine microprocessor in the PlayStation 3 a chance to pick the brains of the people who created the chip. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Boom or Bust For Sony? Sony Electronics has developed an unfortunate reputation for developing amazing technologies and then dropping the ball when it came time to actually sell it. Now it seems like Sony could drop the ball on several big initiatives. |
InternetNews
June 1, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
IBM To Hold Cell Developer Conference IBM and The College of Computing at Georgia Tech will host the first developer conference for building applications using IBM's Cell Broadband Engine, the chip that powers Sony's PlayStation 3. |
InternetNews
August 25, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Next-Gen Gaming Chip Not Just For Fun IBM, Sony and Toshiba are releasing specs on The Cell, their jointly released chip architecture, to show that it's not just about gaming consoles. Their hope is that developers will create a variety of Cell-based applications. |
Wired
May 2001
Paul Boutin |
Nextbox What's 16 times better than PS2? Sony's GScube... |
Wired
September 2006
Frank Rose |
Can the PS3 Save Sony The company that created the transistor radio and the Walkman is at the precipice. If Sony's new $600 console doesn't blow gamers away, it may be time to say good-bye. |
PC Magazine
April 12, 2005
John R. Quain |
Many Processors in One Dual-core processors and 64-bit CPUs are grabbing headlines, but make way for the multiprocessor chip. |
Popular Mechanics
July 15, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Trailing Wii, Sony Banks on PS3 Blu-ray Against Cheaper Xbox 360 The game console war continues. If Sony's "shrink-and-see" approach gains momentum, the death of one format war might just lead to the conclusion of another -- and the death knell for Microsoft's gaming empire. |
InternetNews
October 25, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Makes Way Into Xbox Chip production is under way in the U.S. and abroad to get Microsoft's Xbox 360 in homes for the holiday season. |
PC Magazine
November 16, 2006
Dan Costa |
Sony PlayStation 3 By combining a great gaming platform with a high-definition Blu-ray player, and a host of other features the Sony PlayStation 3 makes a welcome addition to any living room. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2006
Stewart et al. |
A High-Performance Electric Roadster, A Revolutionary Processor, A Heavyweight Light Sport Aircraft and More Long live the Tesla Roadster, the first production high-performance electric car... The PlayStation 3's multitasking processor might change computing forever... Cessna new sport aircraft... Rubber sidewalks... Orbital advertising... |
Home Toys
April 2006 |
Another One Bites the Dust Dual- and multi-core processors thrive on multithreading applications, and despite significant advancements made in increasing data storage access times, an entire network will slow down to a crawl if the performance gap issue is not resolved. |
Linux Journal
August 1, 2007
James Gray |
The Best Game in Town Terra Soft's CEO Kai Staats talks about the building of the world's first supercomputing cluster using the Sony PlayStation 3, which utilizes the IBM Cell Broadband Engine and the Linux operating system. |
BusinessWeek
February 14, 2005
Steve Hamm |
IBM Discovers the Power of One Its focus on a single chip line makes it a contender in almost every market. |
Popular Mechanics
June 9, 2008
Jancy Langley |
How the PS3 Helped Build the World's Fastest Supercomputer The military isn't the only branch of U.S. government that relies on gaming companies for its R&D. Pentagon geeks may use Xbox 360 controllers, but government-funded scientists went straight for the hardware. |
InternetNews
February 7, 2005
Michael Singer |
IBM Debuts 'Cell' Chip The chip is expected to power applications in small consumer electronics devices, home entertainment systems and supercomputers. |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2011
Kurt Bakke |
PS4: Sony Gets Cost-Conscious Expect a more conservative design. |
InternetNews
October 6, 2005
Clint Boulton |
More Than Fun And Games For 'Cell' Chip Systems maker Mercury uses the Sony-IBM-Toshiba Cell chip in new blades to power radar, sonar and X-rays machines. |
BusinessWeek
February 12, 2009
Arik Hesseldahl |
Sony, Microsoft, and the Ultimate Gaming Chip The Race for a New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the Xbox 360 & the PlayStation 3, by David Shippy and Mickie Phipps, is the well-told but incomplete story of the pell-mell struggle to deliver the goods for PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. |
PC World
May 16, 2001
Tom Mainelli & Grace Aquino |
Microsoft Xbox Ships in November With Games Galore More than half a million units and up to 20 games scheduled to be available at launch... |
Popular Mechanics
December 24, 2009 |
Top 15 Events in the Past Decade of Gaming These aren't necessarily the best hardware and software releases -- here's looking at you, Facebook games -- but the ones that had the most impact. |
The Motley Fool
February 9, 2005
Tim Beyers |
No Cash in These Chips -- Yet Three tech giants band together to revolutionize chips. Be careful of the hype about Cell. |
Popular Mechanics
July 21, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Top 10 New Video Games: Hands-on @ E3 2008 Here are ten top picks for the best new video games from E3 2008. |
PC World
November 15, 2001
Eric Dahl |
First Look at Microsoft's Xbox Analysis: With the game console's debut, PC components enter the computer gaming world -- for the better... |
Popular Mechanics
January 6, 2010
Glenn Derene |
Toshiba's Cell TVs Will Convert 2D To 3D In Real Time Toshiba co-developed the Cell with IBM and Sony, which should allow Cell TVs to do some pretty fancy tasks. |
BusinessWeek
May 16, 2005
Edwards & Greene |
Who's Got Game Now? With its next Xbox, Microsoft is out to grab more share from Sony and Nintendo. All this one-upmanship is going to prove mighty entertaining for gamers. |
BusinessWeek
February 20, 2006
Kenji Hall |
This PlayStation May Play Too Much Sony's new PS3 handles a lot more than games, which could confuse buyers. |
InternetNews
April 26, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
IBM Gives Mainframes More Than a Gaming Cell IBM is working on a project to integrate its Cell Broadband Engine processor with its System z mainframes to create a hybrid computer that has the power of a mainframe with the 3D graphics capability of a PlayStation 3. |
InternetNews
May 12, 2004
Ron Miller |
The 'Cell' That Gave Rise to Convergence Sony's plans for future playstations shift into gear with IBM and the duo's next version of the Cell chip. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2008
Anthony Verducci |
How to Turn Your PlayStation 3 Into a Linux PC (and Win Our Mod) The Cell processor inside Sony's PlayStation 3 is a powerhouse that lets the gaming console render highly detailed graphics at blistering speed. That same chip gives the PS3 all the processing muscle it needs to become a fully functional computer. |
BusinessWeek
June 6, 2005
Otis Port |
Mighty Morphing Power Processors IBM and others are racing to create chameleon chips that change to suit the job. |
PC Magazine
April 11, 2007
McLaughlin & Costa |
Griffin iKaraoke The iKaraoke is a fun, sleek, and easy-to-use device that turns your iPod into a karaoke machine... Sony PlayStation 3... Nintendo Wii... Apple TV... |
Salon.com
October 21, 1999
Greg Costikyan |
The war for America's thumbs The stakes are huge and the combatants are mighty -- who will win the war for video-game console supremacy? |
PC World
May 17, 2001
Tom Mainelli & Grace Aquino |
Let the Game Console Wars Begin Will an Xbox, PlayStation, or GameCube fit best in your living room? |
PC Magazine
April 19, 2006
Kennedy & McNeill |
PS3: What we Know Gamers don't know what to make of the Sony PlayStation 3. Some aspects of the PS3 remain a mystery, but little by little the picture is becoming clearer... 10 most popular Xbox 360 games... Auction Block... Mod world... |
PC Magazine
February 2, 2005
John C. Dvorak |
Intel's Albatross Sony's new PlayStation 3 game machine will use an advanced 2-teraflop CPU being developed jointly by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba. |
BusinessWeek
January 8, 2007
Kenji Hall |
The Golden Oldie Of Gaming Sony's PS2 is likely to outsell newer consoles such as the PS3 - not just this year but next. |
InternetNews
May 28, 2007
Clint Boulton |
For The Love of Multi-Core Pain RapidMind execs tout their application development platform for GPUs and multi-core processors. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2007
Steven Mallas |
You Know the PS3 Plays Blu-ray, Right? Sony's PlayStation 3 unit is struggling as Nintendo's Wii console, and the Microsoft Xbox 360, are stealing the glory from the once-dominant brand in video game hardware. But Sony thinks it has a solution. |
Salon.com
August 29, 2000
Wagner James Au |
Xbox, Xbox, uber alles Quit whining. A Microsoft monopoly isn't always a bad thing -- especially if it kicks off a renaissance in gaming creativity. |
InternetNews
December 13, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Videogame Consoles Get Ambitious As hardware gets more powerful, videogame console developers try to take the devices beyond just basic gaming. |
The Motley Fool
October 19, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Will the PS3 Soon Be PS-Free? Another day, another PS3 price cut. Sony will roll out a $400 model of its fledgling PlayStation 3 video game console, hoping to somehow price itself back into the market it once dominated. Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek
May 10, 2004
Greene & Edwards |
Microsoft Plays Video Leapfrog Microsoft's next version of Xbox could be early to market. Will that give it a leg up on Sony? |
