2005
IBM, Sony and Toshiba disclose full technical details of the jointly developed Cell processor
At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, the three companies revealed the architecture of Cell, a multi-core chip pairing a general-purpose core with eight specialized vector-processing cores. Cell was designed for high floating-point throughput and went on to power the Sony PlayStation 3 and IBM supercomputing blades.
Source: InformationWeek