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andrewpeirce on 19 August 2007
mitsuhide said:
This type of logic doesnt even work and if this does happen it would be very weird.
The Sony "10 year plan" doesnt mean 2gens it means they support the console for 10years look at the PS1 it was supported for 10 years by Sony and the PS2 is pushing 8years and good games are still coming out for it and will easily last the 10year plan same as the PS3 will.

uggg... I completly misunderstood what sony meant, extrapalated what I thought they meant, and... wow

Well, I'm glad a good discussion came out of my *terrible* analysis



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rocketpig on 20 August 2007
mitsuhide said:

Well if you read the Beauty and the Beast article it says the PS3 architecture its says its just a massive PS2 piece of hardware and this is because they were both primarily designed by Ken Kutarugi.


Not even close. The PS2 was a single core ARM architecture developed by Toshiba while the PS3 is Power6-based PPC assymetrical core architecture developed by IBM. They are absolutely nothing alike. It's akin to saying that an embedded PPC core is "similar" to a Core 2 Duo chip. They're both made of silicon and both process information digitally; beyond that, they don't share much in common.




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endimion on 20 August 2007

isn't toshiba working on the cell too.... I thought it was a IBM SONY TOSHIBA tech ??? or you meant IBM worked alone with financing from the two other....

 

anyway toshiba working on the cell always confused me as they are supporting HD DVD on the other hand....  



rocketpig on 20 August 2007
endimion said:

isn't toshiba working on the cell too.... I thought it was a IBM SONY TOSHIBA tech ??? or you meant IBM worked alone with financing from the two other....

 

anyway toshiba working on the cell always confused me as they are supporting HD DVD on the other hand....  


Yeah, I believe Toshiba has their hand in the Cell somewhat but it's primarily an IBM venture and I believe that all Cells come off an IBM fab line (though I could be wrong about that). IBM was the prime mover behind the architecture and that's why the main SPU is based off their Power6 architecture (basicaly the same chip as Apple's G5 line).

As for Toshiba working on both Cell and HD-DVD, that's not surprising at all. They're not competing products at all and the only link between the two is the PS3 using the Cell as its CPU and Blu-Ray as its optical drive.




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