Squilliam on 12 January 2011
| cory.ok said: a little offtopic but ive been wondering about it for a while -> the power processing element (PPE) that sony and IBM designed for the cell is something that the xbox has to have to run, i wonder if theyre giving royalties to IBM, sony, both and/or possibly toshiba also, anyone know? |
It is quite possible that they are paying IBM for their PowerPC I.P. I do know however that they paid for much of the development ahead of time, same with Microsoft so the per unit royalty is thus hard to determine without an explicit statement coming from IBM or Sony about them.
Tease.
