In unveiling the specs for the Dual Cell-Based Blade, Mercury demonstrated how it is going beyond gaming applications to become the first vendor to use the Cell technology to address industrial, ...

Everyone has heard that mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Well, the central processing unit (CPU) is the powerhouse of the computer. It's the brain, and without a CPU in your computer, ...

When chips are put to other uses, sometimes goodness ensues – that’s the conclusion of braniacs from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California about their experiments with Sony PlayStation 3 ...

IBM has started selling the first computer based on its multicore Cell processor, targeting organizations that run compute-intensive tasks such as medical imaging or oil exploration. The Cell chip was ...