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  • Tiny Cell Beats Intel Quad-core At Video
    June 9, 2008 – 6:50 AM in Computex 2008
    Taipei (Taiwan) - During Computex 2008 we had a chance to visit Corel’s suite at the Grand Hyatt hotel, which featured, at least as far as we know, the first third party demonstration of Toshiba’s SpursEngine 1000 (SE1000), an accelerator board based o
  • 40% efficient solar cell developed
    December 6, 2006 – 6:12 PM
    The U.S. Department of Energy has announced a new solar cell that can convert more than 40% of sunlight into electricity. The cell, made by Boeing-Spectrolab, uses mirrors and prisms to boost the sunlight going into the cell. The DOE says the cells could be sold for $3 per watt and make electricity for 8 to 10 cents per KW/hour.
  • Terra Soft moves past Apple with first Cell-based supercomputing cluster
    October 10, 2006 – 3:27 PM
    The announcement last year that Apple was moving to Intel-based hardware might have seemed like a fatal blow to Terra Soft Solutions, a company best-known for the Yellow Dog Linux distro.
  • IBM's Cell processor "impressive", but not an x86 killer - analyst
    April 27, 2005 – 1:49 PM
    A closely guarded secret for five years, IBM's Cell processor has finally been unveiled, and the chip is expected to have a major impact on the video game market, reports market research firm In-Stat.
  • TI unveils management chips for multi-cell, Li-ion battery packs
    December 19, 2006 – 11:47 AM
    Texas Instruments (TI) has unveiled several new battery management ICs, including its next-generation Impedance Track "gas gauge" chipset, to improve battery performance and protect multi-cell, lithium-based battery packs used in notebooks and other systems.
  • Report: Cell/B.E. to be Used in PlayStation 4
    September 30, 2008 – 9:00 PM
    Could Sony be planning on using an upgraded Cell/B.E. in the PlayStation 4?
  • First Cell-powered computer ships
    January 10, 2006 – 6:30 PM
    The first product based on IBM/Toshiba/Sony's Cell processor has shipped, reports Mercury Computer Systems. Mercury's Cell Technology Evaluation System (CTES) is a 470-pound behemoth with one or two dual-Cell blades running Linux. It targets defense, medical, and industrial inspection markets.
  • IBM rolls out first Cell-based blade server
    September 13, 2006 – 12:28 PM
    IBM announced availability of what the company calls the first "generally available" computer system with a Cell processor. While the CPU is best known as the power plant of Sony's upcoming Playstation 3 console, it is marketed as a viable resource in computing-intensive fields, such as the medical, defense, animation, aerospace and oil industries, as well.
  • Fuel cell automatically throttles its power
    January 29, 2007 – 5:19 PM
    A fuel cell that efficiently regulates its own power output based on the amount of hydrogen it is fed has been developed by US researchers. The simple control mechanism could extend the range of devices that can practically be powered using fuel cells.
  • Samsung develops fuel cell for laptop
    December 28, 2006 – 5:28 PM
    Samsung has created a new fuel cell that can power a laptop computer for up to a month without any sort of external power, reports Korean news source Chosun Ilbo. Reportedly, the 1200-watt-hour fuel cell can power a laptop for continued use of eight hours a day, five days a week, for an entire month.
  • IBM to ship Cell-based blade server in Q3
    February 9, 2006 – 2:24 PM
    IBM announced that it will begin shipping a new blade-server using the Cell processor in the third quarter of this year. The chip will be made available in the framework of the firm's BladeCenter H family and will aim to accelerate digital animation applications, as well as floating point heavy scientific software.
  • Sony's Cell processor to run at 4.6 GHz
    January 21, 2005 – 10:53 AM
    According to a story posted at The Inquirer, Sony's Playstation 3 processor will run at a speed of 4.6 GHz at 1.3 volts.
  • Mercury intros Cell accelerator board for PC workstations
    July 31, 2006 – 2:15 PM
    If you are attracted by the processing power of the Cell processor, but don't want to give up your existing PC environment or invest in a completely new workstation environment, Mercury may have a solution for you: The company offers a PCI express accelerator board with Cell processor that promises a whopping 180 GFlops performance boost.
  • IBM to build Cell supercomputer for DOE
    September 7, 2006 – 12:15 AM
    IBM will construct a new supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The system will combine Cell and Opteron processors and deliver more than twice the combined performance of the DOE's BlueGene/L and ASC Purple systems, which are currently ranked #1 and #3 on the Top 500 supercomputer list.
  • Cell processor can decode 48 MPEG-2 streams - simultaneously
    May 2, 2005 – 3:56 PM
    Toshiba demonstrated that its Cell microprocessor, jointly developed with the Sony Group and IBM Corp., can simultaneously decode 48 SDTV format MPEG-2 streams.

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