Quite how revolutionary the Cell chip will turn out to be, then, remains to be seen.
The Cell chip was a selling point for the PlayStation 3, which went on sale in 2006.
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Sony also hopes to use the Cell chip in high-definition televisions, music players and a range of household electronics.
The three firms claim that the Cell chip will be up to 10 times more powerful than existing processors.
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Sony currently relies on a technology called the Cell chip, which was developed jointly with International Business Machines Corp.
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Mass production should be easy because Lilliputian's fuel-cell chip can be made using 20-year-old semiconductor manufacturing equipment prevalent throughout Asia.
However, Sony has bigger plans for the console and the Cell chip.
Sony is currently locked in a battle with Toshiba, which, despite helping to develop the Cell chip, is pushing an alternative DVD standard.
The Sony -ibm- Toshiba Cell chip has nine miniature processing units.
The move would both introduce compatibility concerns with existing games, built to run on the Cell chip, while also ending a long-running partnership with Nvidia Corp.
The chip is separate from the technology Sony currently relies upon for its PlayStation 3, known as the Cell chip, which was developed jointly with International Business Machines Corp.
The Japanese firm is pinning its hopes on the processing power and storage capacity of its new console, which will include a revolutionary processing unit based on the new Cell chip, developed with IBM and Toshiba.
That was the bigger leak an acknowledgment that Microsoft killed them last cycle by making the Xbox far easier to develop since it was like programming for a locked down x86 PC instead of the alien Cell chip.
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Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip act like a genius.
Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip behave like a genius.
Qualcomm is also the leader in cell phone chip sets, led by its high-end Snapdragon chip.
The fuel-cell on a chip is coming along fast and could well replace the rechargeable battery within a decade.
Behind the mirrors is a memory chip, each cell of which corresponds to one mirror.
Mr. Shippy and Ms. Phipps view the delivery of the Cell processor and the derivative Xbox chip as victories for both companies.
The wireless industry will welcome Clearwire to the LTE world with open arms because the industry believes that a common radio standard across the globe will continue to drive down chip, device, and cell-site costs, and make it easier to roam around the world.
While most of you probably carry an all-in-one NAV with a built-in GPS receiver, the MG-920 is designed to connect to Bluetooth navigation systems that need a little help syncing with satellites, and although the SiRF Star III LP chip and rechargeable Li-ion cell are entirely average, the bottom-mounted FM transmitter allows a turn-by-turn instructor to be channeled to one's FM radio.
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Measuring at 6.93mm thick (instead of the rumored 6.13mm), we're surprised that Oppo didn't set this to be the follow-up to the Finder: sure, it's 0.28mm thicker, but it also aces the latter with a 4.7-inch 720p in-cell display, a 1.2GHz quad-core chip with 1GB RAM (likely MediaTek's Cortex-A7-based MT6589 SoC), Android 4.2 and a sorely missed 3.5mm headphone jack -- so no micro-USB adapter required.
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The researchers were led to this idea when they scanned the stem-cell precursors of nerve cells with a device called a gene chip.
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Chip vendors will be building more device chips and cell site radio chips, infrastructure companies are selling more cell site equipment, and since WiMAX and LTE are both IP-based networks, network back-ends will be converted from traditional switches to routers so there are opportunities for companies that make routers.
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Not the GUI, not the iPod, not the cell phone, not 4G, not Siri, not the A6 chip (ARM based).
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Weinberger's new chip acts like a wireless Rosetta stone, able to imitate any other chip--and thereby mimic any of today's cell phones.
Cell phones function much like debit cards in that they use a data chip (in this case, a SIM card) to store balances and enable withdrawals.
He is working with Quake to create a thumb-size chip that can automatically catalog the genes and proteins inside a single stem cell.
The solar cell manufacturing industry for years made do with hand-me-down tools from the computer chip industry.
The wireless chip and technology vendor is betting that if it constructs a nationwide network to stream television over cell phones, cellular carriers will sign on and consumers will clamor for the service.
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