Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 108. Chapters: PowerPC, PlayStation 3, IBM POWER, Deep Blue, Nintendo GameCube, IBM System i, Blue Gene, AltiVec, BeBox, AIM alliance, Xbox 360, Wii, Watson, PlayStation 3 hardware, Xbox 360 hardware, RS/6000, Tundra Semiconductor, IBM IntelliStation, Timeline of PlayStation 3 SKUs, IBM Roadrunner, Freescale Semiconductor, BlackDog, IBM PC Series, Buffalo network-attached storage series, David A. Bader, AmigaOne X1000, Blue Brain Project, Synology, Logical partition, IBM System Storage, QCDOC, PowerPC applications, Shaheen, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, P.A. Semi, Dynamic frequency scaling, Sam440ep, Zego, RAD750, Magerit, PowerVM, MareNostrum, Frank Soltis, Killer NIC, Fixstars Solutions, Power.org, Blue Waters, CoreConnect, IBM RAD6000, IBM Scalable POWERparallel, JUGENE, PowerVM Lx86, Micro-Partitioning, Dynamic Logical Partitioning, IBM Sequoia, RHPPC, System X, Elastic interface bus, Pieter Van den Abeele, IBM Power Systems, Spanish Supercomputing Network, QPACE, Genesi, Sam460ex, EFUSE, IBM Kittyhawk, Common Hardware Reference Platform, ASCI Blue Pacific, PowerPC Reference Platform, Power A5000, ASC Purple, PERCS, James A. Kahle, IBM ViVA, Keith Diefendorff, PowerOpen Environment, PR/SM, ACube Systems Srl, Ravi Arimilli, Ppc64, Power Architecture Platform Reference, MobileGT, IBM OpenPower, Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O, IBM p690, IBM Translation Control Entry, IBM Deep Thunder. Excerpt: The PlayStation 3 Pureisut shon Sur, officially abbreviated as PS3) is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006 in Japan, with international markets foll...