The so-called Cell chip was unveiled at the International Sold State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, where representatives from the three companies were on hand to discuss its technological workings.

Built on technology from IBM's Power processor, the new chip contains multiple processing cores and can act like more than one chip at any given time. Because of its potential power, Cell is being touted as the equivalent of supercomputer on a single chip.

Consumers are likely to get their first experience with Cell next year when Sony uses it in the PlayStation 3 game console. However, the chip is expected to be marketed for use in other high-end consumer electronics such as televisions and home entertainment systems, as well as in business-level supercomputers.

Cell's release is seen by some industry watchers as a potential threat to Intel's dominance of the desktop microprocessor market.

Intel meanwhile was expected to show off a new version of its Itanium chip, which contains more than 1.7 billion transistors in a dual-core design meant to boost overall processing performance.

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