Tag archive: Nagasaki

Sometimes the timing of corporate announcements can make you blink. Immediately in the wake of Toshiba killing off its HD DVD high-definition disc format, the company has finalized a deal with Sony that will have it acquiring a chip-making facility in western Japan for some ¥90 billion (about $835 million). The move is part of Sony's effort to focus on its core businesses, which the company now believes does not include… Read More

Electronics giants Sony and Toshiba have announced (Japanese) have announced they will form a joint partnership—60 percent owned by Toshiba—that will take over manufacture of the Cell processor and graphics processing unit used in Sony's PlayStation 3 game console, and possibly other high-performance chips. The deal will also have Sony selling Toshiba two of its chip fabrication plants, on in Nagasaki and another in Oita,… Read More

A team of IBM, Sony Group and Toshiba engineers has collaborated on development of the Cell microprocessor at a joint design center established in Austin, Texas, since March 2001. The prototype chip is 221 mm(2), integrates 234 million transistors, and is fabricated with 90 nanometer SOI technology. Cell's breakthrough multi-core architecture and ultra high-speed communications capabilities deliver vastly improved, real-time response… Read More

Both companies are jointly developing a custom graphics processing unit (GPU) incorporating NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce and SCEI's system solutions for next-generation computer entertainmentsystems featuring the Cell* processor. This collaboration is made under a broad, multi-year, royalty-bearing agreement.  The powerful custom GPU will be the graphics and image processing foundation for a broad range of applications… Read More

Speaking in an interview with Japanese journalists, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has pinned down 2006 as the year when a successor to the Xbox will be released – a time frame which could see Xbox 2 being the last of the next generation consoles to appear. Ballmer acknowledged that sales of the Xbox in Japan have been sluggish (it'd take quite a poker face to claim otherwise, after all), but stated that Microsoft would stick to… Read More

Arguably the first shot in the next generation console war has been fired, with Sony pumping