Cell Architecture: The concept, design, and construction of the Cell microprocessor.

Introduction

The Cell microprocessor is most well known as the processor used by Sony's Playstation 3 gaming console. You could consider the processor 'complicated' seeing as it is a tiny piece of electronic hardware that requires an extensive amount of education to fully, or even remotely understand. Because of this barrier of understanding, cellarchitecture.com will attempt to present different levels (or, hierarchies) of information about the processor, some of which will be approachable to the majority of readers.

• Development began in 2001 by IBM Systems Technology Group, Sony and Toshiba
• 'Cell' is shorthand for 'Cell Broadband Engine Architecture'

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