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Sony & Toshiba Disclose Cell Fab Plans

Posted by timothy on from the bit-factories dept.

sean23007 writes "InfoWorld is running an article about Sony and Toshiba's plans for new fabrication plants to build the 'Cell' chip jointly developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM for use in the Playstation 3 and other home entertainment uses. The new fabs will be located in Nagasaki and Oita, and both companies plan to spend $1.7 billion over the next 3-4 years in their construction. They will be capable of using 300 mm wafers with a 65 nm process. The chip is slated to be the first 1 teraflop consumer device."

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  1. Cell Won't Be In PS3 by elwoodblues16 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Yet another article citing Sony execs saying that Cell won't be in the PS3...

    http://www.designchain.com/coverstory.asp?issue=sp ring03

    These problems may be a few years out, though. IBM has not announced when it will release the final chip, but the Cell project was originally envisioned as taking five years, suggesting that the final product may not be ready until as late as 2007. Although Sony refuses to talk about its future plans for the chip, it does admit that the Cell chip will not be the CPU in the Playstation3, reportedly slated for release in 2005.