03.Dec.2004
Matthias Jaap/Mac Life
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IBM announces details to Cell-Chip
The new consoles from Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft will be introduced on the E3 in May next
year for the first time. But the winner is already clear: IBM. All consoles will have
a CPU from IBM which is unique until now.
Such a news is also the Cell-Chip which IBM together with Sony and Toshiba developed.
As a first product a workstation will be developed which contains the Cell-Chip
and which will become the developing environment for the PlayStation 3.
Cell is related with IBMs POWER-Chips and is a Multi-Core-System with 64-Bit.
Each of this Cores could have an operating system independent of the others. Unlike the
processor of the PlayStation 2 which is the Emotion Engine, Cell is not mainly optimated
for consoles but useful for different purposes.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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