rumor ps4 might use ps3 cell chip

[Final-Fan]

goddog said:

Final-Fan said:

halogamer1989 said:
Same chip due to dev learning curve. Most games take longer to dev on PS3 because of the CELL. I say they should toss it for more PC-orientated CPU/GPU in my opinion. It would make things easier.

I don't understand.  Even if it was a mistake to put the Cell in the PS3, why should Sony now, after the developers finally understand it, abandon it in the PS4?  I don't know why a more powerful version of the Cell should be radically harder for them to understand now that they have experience with the Cell. 

P.S.  Never mind this part -- I'm experimenting to try to discover the last smiley shortcut.  (u) (?) (d) (x) :-? :-/ :- :-% :-^ (/) () (b) :-| :-S :-7
http://www.vgchartz.com/includes/undecided.gif

Im not saying they are abandoning it in the next one, but just not developing it further, they did bail on the consotium developing it and sold intrest back to ibm, so it will cost more to develop a next one, 2 something that has been speculated, is the current board implementation in the ps3 limits the cells potential significantly, so if they changed the board io, and gpu set up, the same chip could provide significantly improved perfomance, without the cost of developing a new chip. I think thats where they are headed using this article and the supposed 2011 launch (to early in my op). and it would be radicaly harder to because of the way the central cell chip acts as an io controller, could make for new intruction sets, that must be planned for. also in future prior specs of the cell the chip would handle fx, something that has not been tried before. on top of that making 2 or more cell chips, or cell cores, on on chip would create a control problem, complex coding and io control would be needed, also recreation of assets to be able to work in a duel processor set up

Yes, I know.  This is my response to halogamer1989.  My response to you is in the previous page:  
"OK, I did miss that part.  Thanks for the correction. 

But as for whether the speculation turns out to be true, I have to say that with the pace of technology advancement it would be extremely easy to have a considerably more powerful version of the Cell instead of just the same chip and still stay very cost effective -- in fact if Sony "did a Wii" this is exactly what would happen since the Wii is much more powerful than the Gamecube, just less of an advancement than the other two."

Note that unless I am seriously missing something (and I am far, far from an engineering expert so it's perfectly possible) a "Wii-like" upgrade would not radically change the system from what people will be used to dealing with in the PS3.