[Cialug] New Xbox

[David Champion]

Yeah, it's the "Cell" processor, which essentially has 3 PPC cores. A 
similar CPU will be used in the PS3.

Windows has been ported to other processors in the past: WinNT for 
Alpha, WinCE (and various other names for the same thing) for ARM, 
Hitachi Super<whatever> that's in the Sega Dreamcast & a lot of PDA's, a 
Motorola 68k derivative...

-dc

Darcy Baston wrote:
> One chip with 3 cores I think. The PS3 will have a multiple core CPU as well.
> 
> And at 3.x GHz per core...that's some good processing power!
> 
> Does raise the Windows port-ability question for sure.
> 
> Darcy
>  
> On Friday, May 13, 2005, at 02:01PM, Nathan C. Smith <smith@ipmvs.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Anyone find it interesting that the new Xbox uses 3 PowerPC chips?
>>
>>Can it be extrapolated from this that the core of Windows has been ported to
>>run on PowerPC?
>>
>>
>>-Nate