Cell chip
The Cell is a system-on-a-chip integrated circuit being developed by Toshiba, IBM, and Sony. The Cell chip is intended to be scalable from handheld devices to mainframe computers by utilizing parallel processing. Sony plans to use the chip in their PlayStation 3 game console.
The system is said to consist of a number of more or less identical units, which software then allocates to process computing tasks in parallel. There will be several versions of the Cell chip with varying number of processing units depending on the device where the chip is used. The companies designing the chip has claimed that by scaling the number of units in the chip, supercomputer-like performance can be made available in consumer devices.
