greenmedic88 on 18 November 2008
| bdbdbd said: @Greenmedic: I'm betting on Sony getting royalties. After all, Cell includes patents from all three. How do they split the money and what kind of deal they had considering the manufacturing, is a whole different matter. There's still a lot money revolving around processors. @NJ5: It looks like Cell was one trojan in PS3. It introduces programmers into the code, quick drop in costs if it would have sold as expected (and the Cell developement would have ran as it is now), keeping production line running, while the costs would have been offset by the number of games sold. Just think about the synergic advantages for a moment. Some people offer HDTV sales for the advantages, but that's the least of all that the PS3 had "brought home". |
It's one of those undefined issues that generally isn't public domain information. Plus there are the specifics of the individual patents each firm holds. Does Sony's specifically refer to application, or is it in the architecture of the chip itself? I'm guessing it's the former.
Either way, I'd have a hard time seeing Sony pulling in any significant source of revenue through the use of CBE chips in anything other than its own PS3.
Do they get a cut from every CBE used in a Toshiba HDTV? From each chip used in every IBM manufactured supercomputing cluster? It seems unlikely, but again, unless someone knows the specifics of the patents each firm holds, it's merely speculation.
