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ithis on 15 July 2011
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JEMC said:
drkohler said:
JEMC said:

Surely you are right, I assumed that both chips had something in common as I read that IBM used some of the knowledge they gained when developing the Cell to develop the chip of the xbox360.

My bad.

Wow.. logic is not your friend, is it? Considering the XBox360 appeared over a year before the PS3, it is pretty obvious the development cycles were at least running in parallel. More likely Sony cut off the multicores from the IBM design line (that ended in the 360) to make room for the SPUs..

Logic may not be my friend, yet you say "development cycles were at least running in parallel", so ideas used in the Cell development could also be used for the xbox360 chip.

Thank God you are so logical!

Use wikipedia, it usually knows stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon_(processor)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)#Power_Processor_Element_.28PPE.29 read this and the next paragraph. That's what they have in comon.