Boom. The head of Toshiba's semiconductor operation, Yasuo Morimoto, has revealed a few further details of Cell - the multiprocessing-oriented CPU architecture for the broadband era currently being developed by Toshiba, Sony and IBM. The three partners announced the chip earlier this month. They committed themselves to spending $400 million over the next five years developing the chip, described by Sony's Ken Kutaragi, the creator of the PlayStation, this way: "With built-in broadband connectivity, microprocessors that currently exist as individual islands will be more closely linked, making a network of systems act more as one, unified 'supersystem'. Just as biological cells in the body unite to form complete physical systems, Cell-based electronic products of all types will form the building blocks of larger systems." Hard technical specs. remain few and far between, but Morimoto, speaking in an interview with the Nikkei newswire, does give a more detailed - albeit in a rather vague fashion - picture of the processor than the one presented at its launch. More here and here