Sony Basically Designed the Xbox 360 Processor For Microsoft, Says New Book

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NJ5 said:

colonelstubbs said:
So um, is this trying to prove MS stole from Sony again or what?

Basically yes.

The way I see it, this goes one of three ways:

1- It's bogus or irrelevant.

2- It's true, but it happened because Sony didn't adequately protect the research being done on their behalf by IBM (Sony's fault). In this case, what's to stop IBM engineers from sharing information among each other in order to not reinvent the wheel?

3- It's true, and it happened despite Sony protecting the research through NDAs and the such. In this case, Sony could press charges against IBM and/or Microsoft. More likely IBM only.

I think 3 is quite unlikely.

 

3... wont happen, soy does not own enough of the right to do so, and the contract for the cell&powerpc developments give IBM the rights to develop other chips with the tech. even more so now that sony has sonld most of its development right in the project, remember when this started it was a 3way deal, riding on a clause in the original AIM (apple IBM Motorola (now freescale)) clause that allowed IBM to develope new chips based on the shared development of the PPC designs, and as such had to continue to allow any of the original partners of AIM to be able to push new technology developed to new partners.  

2..they couldnt due to the AIM alliance as stated above. 

1 is the winner by default 

one of the things that is cool out of all of this is apple, and freescale can use any of this tech to make their own chips if they decided to