Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Based on the IBM Cell BE (Broadband Engine) processor, the Dual Cell-Based Blade is designed to address computationally intensive applications in aerospace and defense, seismic, semiconductor test, ...

The company is also preparing to introduce its new POWER 6 processor. IBM unveiled a nine-core IBM Cell blade, a dual-core POWER processor-based BladeCenterJS21 and an ultra low-power Intel-based ...

IBM appears to be having a tough time making a sufficient number of working copies of its Cell processor, perhaps causing further problems for Sony's PlayStation 3. IBM Vice President of Semiconductor ...

Using a Cell Broadband Engine processor and featuring a PCI Express x16 interface and an ATX form factor, the CAB accelerator board is said to deliver 180 GFLOPS of performance. It targets ...

IBM Corp. is using a cluster of prototype blade servers built around its multicore Cell microprocessor to breathe life into a three-dimensional model of a beating human heart at the Cebit trade show ...

Part 2 of Hannibal's coverage of the new Cell processor from IBM, Sony, and Toshiba looks at its basic architecture.