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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.

Resources in This Category

• Cell Microprocessor

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)
  Growing entry, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]

• Holy Chip!

  http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0130/076.html
  How Sony and IBM may remake entertainment. [Forbes.com]

• IBM to Help Others Integrate Cell Processor

  http://www.sci-tech-today.com/sttinnv/story.xhtml?story_id=32127
  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]

• IBM's Octopiler, or, Why the PS3 is Running Late

  http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060225-6265.html
  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]

• Introducing the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Processor: Part I: The SIMD Processing Units

  http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/cell-1.ars
  Technical analysis and overview. [Ars Technica]

• Introducing the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Processor: Part II: The Cell Architecture

  http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/cell-2.ars
  Technical analysis and overview. [Ars Technica]

• The Cell of a New Machine

  http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3644254
  Is the new chip as revolutionary as proponents claim? [Economist.com]

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