IBM’s marketing of the cell chips from PS3 was a Red Herring top story of the week.

Sony’s PlayStation 3 console may be off to a late start in the latest round of the console wars. But the company cranking out Sony’s silicon is finding plenty of uses for the PlayStation 3’s cell processor in the here and now. IBM’s latest use for the chip is in blade servers based on the processor, which began shipping today. Dubbed BladeCenter QS20, IBM is pitching the new server to customers running heavy-duty graphics (see IBM Touts Speedy Server). Last week, IBM said it was building a supercomputer based on Cell as well as AMD chips, possibly overcoming the speed and cooling limits of current supercomputing architecture (see A PS3-based Supercomputer?).

That’s nice and all, but I think it must have been a slow news week.

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