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 ...

A group of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been using the Sony Playstation 3 for a course on parallel processing architectures. It is the Cell microprocessor that lies ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever wondered what would happen if you put the PlayStation 3's Cell processor into a laptop? Us too, and now we know the answer: you get the Toshiba Spurs Engine, a system that turns a normal laptop ...

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 ...

Guerrilla Games co-director and technical director Michiel van der Leeuw says speaking with GameInformer in a recent interview said the PlayStation 3's Cell CPU is more powerful than current Intel ...

The processor in Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console can potentially support Apple's Mac OS X Tiger operating system according to a recent posting to Sony's UK website. The highly anticipated ...

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 ...

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 ...

The PlayStation 3 marked a turning point for console gaming, pushing cinematic storytelling, physics-based gameplay and HD graphics into the mainstream. But it also came with a notoriously complex ...