Cell processor finally tips up

@ 2008/04/08
THE CELL MICROPROCESSOR, developed by IBM, Toshiba and Sony, has started sampling under the rather bizarre brand name of SpursEngine 1000 (SE1000).

Toshiba reckons that there's a potential market for six million of the things over the next three years.

The original cell ended up in Sony's Playstation and has six cores together with a PowerPC in the middle. IBM and Toshiba started joint work on the chip with Sony back in 2001.

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