The triad behind the Cell processor has released a software developer kit for the chip to help foster its popularity. The kit, which contains more than 1,000 pages of documentation, includes ...

There are rumors of a cheap chip that does USB natively, has an Open Source toolchain, and costs a quarter. These aren’t rumors: you can buy the CH552 microcontroller right now. Surprisingly,… ...

Cell's designers say their chip, built from the start with the burgeoning world of rich media and broadband networks in mind, can deliver 10 times the performance of today's PC processors.

IBM, Sony and Toshiba announced the much-anticipated Cell microprocessor, containing a multicore, multithreaded gaming engine described as “a supercomputer on a chip.” Cell is expected to be ...