[Cialug] New Xbox

[Lee]

I must have missed something. Isn't the PPC CPU in the XBOX just IBM's
existing multi-core tech? I wouldn't think Sony would have ok'd the realease
of the CELL in a next-gen competitor.

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From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org]On Behalf
Of David Champion
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 2:15 PM
To: cialug@cialug.org
Subject: Re: [Cialug] New Xbox


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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