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IBM Engineers Claim Sony R&D Paid For Xbox 360 CPU — Cell Soul Sold for $1 Billion?

Friday, January 2, 2009

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IBM Engineers Claim Sony R&D Paid For Xbox 360 CPU — Cell Soul Sold for $1 Billion?

The excitement began in the summer of 2003. My team and I had worked tirelessly at IBM for two and a half years, breathing life into the Sony PlayStation 3 "Cell" central processing chip... Then Dr. Chekib Akrout, IBM's senior vice president responsible for the PlayStation's chip team, told me another customer wanted our secret-weapon, record-smashing [...]

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IBM: Gaming Develops Unique Skills

Thursday, January 1, 2009

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IBM: Gaming Develops Unique Skills

Some companies and employment firms may be snubbing gamers, but IBM is ready to jump on the "gaming-is-good!" bandwagon. Speaking with the BBC, IBM’s global executive in charge of games and interactive entertainment, David Laux, touted IBM’s new tools to help game designers better their products, and also spoke about the positives of gaming.

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