SpartanFX said:
lool,,,do you honestly believe that a company would use a 7 year old chip(by the time PS4 comes out) in their next gen machine?it would be more expensive to use the old chip than a new upgraded one casue in 5 years they will not produce this cell,,,there will be a more advanced cell.
that's kinda of obvious that they won't use the same chip. |
actually the very well might the power of the cell will/can not be fully taped because of its chipset implementation, honestly completly revising the board i/o controller, ram, and gpu, could make the cell last much longer, and even improve it theoretical top end. the ps3 MB much like the 360s was ruched, but unlike the 360s where speed penatalties werent as bad due to its traditional nature, the poor execution on the ps3 mb has really hurt the cell. im beginging to belive that the ps3 due mainly to ram constraints and i/o throughput issues will never operate at more than half capacity, manily due to efficinetcy issues, basicaly large amounts of time the chip is waiting to be told what to do far more than it should be. remeber a computer is only as fast as its slowest part, and the cell is hindered by its mb tramedously.
also bullshit on being more costly to use the old chip, on top of being refined in production which will make for more good chips per batch the die shrinks will make it more power effecint, and more profitable per waffer as wel. design a chip is costly, and they bailed on the allance for it, so it will cost them even more to ask ibm to design a chip just for them, unless they decided to use whatever ibm desides to put out and shoe horn a gerneralised cell chip into a games station, and not a game specific chip. changes like that cause instruction set issues which could break backwards compatability, and ibm has been known to ignore powerpc (which the cell is a member of) alliance rules when laying out instruction sets
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