smallflyingtaco on 23 September 2008
| cwbys21 said: I guess Sony chose the wrong boat for its contract for buying processors if Toshiba isn't able to mass produce 45nm cells 'til 2009 for Sony while IBM is doing right now for themselves. |
This may be partially IBMs fault as well. They have been trying to push their Power Architecture into being a more popular processor family, or at least to build it into a solid alternative for Linux Workstations and Servers to Intel. If they were not willing to offer long term contracts to Sony to provide CELL processors then this may have required Sony stick with Toshiba. This has been a long term goal for IBM going back to PowerPC days.
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