Cell (processor)
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The Cell Broadband Engine is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computer multi-core processor and microarchitecture developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM—an alliance known as "STI". It combines several el
Cell/B.E. as it appears on the motherboard of the PlayStation 3 (PS3)
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Cards from the company B-CAS in a Toshiba Cell Regza set-top box, based on the Cell Broadband Engine
Xenon (processor)
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Microsoft XCPU, codenamed Xenon, is a CPU used in the Xbox 360 game console, to be used with ATI's Xenos graphics chip.
Cell (processor)
…processor, but during development, Microsoft approached IBM wanting a high-performance processor core for the Xbox 360. IBM agreed and built the tri-core Xenon processor, based on a slightly modified version of the PPE with added VMX128 extensions. Each SPE is a dual-issue, in-order processor composed of a Synergistic…
Picture of the microprocessor (XCPU-ES shown)
The original XCPU DD2 ES manufactured at 90 nm by IBM in 2005. ES stands for "Engineering Sample" and the device is packaged by IBM at their Bromont facility in Canada. It runs at 2.8GHz, as opposed to the final chip, which ran at 3.2GHz.
The 90nm XCPU DD3 manufactured at 90 nm by Chartered in Singapore 2006
The 65nm XCPU "Loki" manufactured at 65 nm by Chartered in Singapore 2007