IBM Begins Manufacturing 65-Nanometer Cell Microprocessor

6:15 am on March 13, 2007 | Category: Mobile Devices, Wireless Technology

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Info tech giant, IBM, announced yesterday that its next generation of Cell microprocessors would be smaller than preceding models, at just 65-nanometers. No other details were given about the chip, except to say that it was in production.

The Cell chip was jointly developed by IBM, Toshiba, and Sony, and is responsible for powering Sony’s Playstation 3 gaming console.

By shrinking computers components, chipmakers are hoping to squeeze more transistors onto each chip, thereby increasing performance and reducing production costs. This general principle has been an especially major influence on companies that manufacture processors for notebook computers and wireless devices.

The world’s largest chipmaker, Intel, began developing 65-nanometer chips in 2005, and was followed by Infineon, AMD, and most recently, Broadcom.

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