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Soleron on 06 April 2012
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Viper1 said:
Soleron said:
Viper1 said:
Viper1 said:
PowerPC A2 is a 16 core 65 watt CPU.

It's very feasible MS could use the CPU.

It's also one of the 2 CPU's believed to be in the Wii U (either Power7 or PowerPC A2).

I seem to have to quote myself because you guys keep going on and on about a 2 8 core Power7's when there already exists a 16 core PowerPC chip.

Yields. A sixteen core Power7 chip is enormous and would cost several hundred a chip wholesale. Two smaller chips can be a lot cheaper, see AMD Magny-Cours.

My point is 3 fold.

A) 2 8 core Power7 CPu's would be far too hot, far too big and far too expensive. 

B) A 16 core IBM chip already exists.  The PowerPC A2.

C) If you have 2 CPU's you don't necessarily count the cores together and call it a X core CPU.   You would say 2 X core CPU's.   The fact they speak in singuarl with regard the CPU suggests it's not a multiple CPU configuration which again leads back to B.


A) Yes.

B) OK, did not know. That does make a lot of sense. Two smaller 8 core non-Power7 chips are also an option, so it could be consistent with that.

C) Definitely wrong. Go and look at Intel Core 2 Quad "Kentsfield". That was two CPU dies connected on package and NO ONE ever called it "two CPUs".