[Cialug] New Xbox

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I thought the PS3 had the Cell, but XBox will be using PPC.  It's my
understanding the Cell and the PPC are different.  IBM had a hand in Cell, but
so did Toshiba and Sony.

--
Tim W.


> 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
> 
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