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 the chip ...

The four companies developing the Cell microprocessor released a few more details about the chip on Monday — and with them a surprise: first generation versions of the device won’t be built on a ...

Toshiba is planning to bring the powerful Cell processor into consumer electronics and launch a TV based on the chip in the second half of 2009, it said Friday at the IFA electronics show in Berlin.