EETimes is reporting that IBM, Toshiba and Sony, in an attempt to gather support from the Open Source community, are releasing the new chip’s full specificaitons and software libraries.
The Cell Processor is the processor powering the Sony’s new Playstation3 (PS3).
The IBM Corp. fellow who led the design team said his company currently has no plans to make Cell-based chips for its own systems or for the merchant market. Instead, IBM has set up a team in its engineering services division to help others custom-design versions of Cell that could be made in IBM’s fabs.
