http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/ Engadget Comments for IBM begins production of 65nm Cell chip http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/
Also remember that any PS3 pricecut is for Sony's benefit, not ours'. They're still looking to reduce their cost to manufacture while still selling for the same price.]]>Mar 14th 2007 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/
Nobody cares. The PS3 is dead already. It's a two-horse race between the X360 and Wii.]]>Mar 13th 2007 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/Mar 13th 2007 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/
More closer benchmark would be CPU+DSP v. Cell - though again no such benchmarks exist.

But then again (even if there would be such benchmarks) it all would boil down to peripherals: DSPs (and Cell I think too) work internally magnitudes faster compared to e.g. RAM or PCI bus.

And also DSPs are real-time devices - you can calculate how long any particular operation would take. They are built into systems after calculating precisely what performance is needed. So they are kind of very specialized.

Cell is aimed to be more universal - but retaining all good features of DSPs. Though it doesn't look like it making any big inroads. DSP programming was always tricky...]]>Mar 13th 2007 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/
i'll hear from you again in a year....

"why is the PS3 doing so well now....that Home and LittleBigWorld, Final Fantasy 13, White Nights, MGS...et cetc...aiii why did those games have to come out..sigh"]]>Mar 13th 2007 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/
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"Lets not forget that IBM provides the CPU's for the GameCube, Wii, PS3 and XBOX 360 and apparently future versions of these boxes."

Yes, and only one of the (the biggest failure) uses the cell processor.]]>Mar 13th 2007 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/Mar 13th 2007 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/
motorstorm how i loved you and waited for you after i played your demo (at target) and then i found out you were a 1 player game, no split screen. no thank you sony, i will not play games by myself, either with my brother or drunken comrades.]]>Mar 14th 2007 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/
Looking forward to your next iReport claiming Apple invented the internet, mp3, TV, mobile telephony...or something. Aaaaany day now....]]>Mar 13th 2007 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/Mar 13th 2007 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/
Can spot a Wiiboy from a mile away.....]]>Mar 13th 2007 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/
Can spot a Wiiboy from a mile away.....]]>Mar 13th 2007 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/ibm-begins-production-of-65nm-cell-chip/
What the heck is going on at SCEA?
Is everyone there deaf, dumb, and blind?

it is so depressing watching Sony kill this console (and themselves.)
Sony Corp, apparently, has some social disease whereby anything that passes through their 'hands' turns into a disaster, a catastrophe of such epic proportions that the only thing most decent people can do is turn away (while less noble souls mock consumers of Sony products incessantly.)

IBM and Tosh ought to be grateful that the company is out of the Cell, anything they can do to distance themselves from this 'lepper."

The PS2 was, and is still, only defined by one word, success.
But that success is long forgotten in no small part thanks to... everything Sony has done since the PS2.

The PS3... everything from marketing, to the lousy physical dimensions and excessive weight, power consumption, over done technology, to the actual games (as if there were any), just plain sucks so hard, so very damn hard.

The PS3 is best known for -
No games,
Ridiculous price tag,
Technology that the market largely doesn't care about (BD),
No GTA IV exclusive (hence no reason to buy at all)
And, finally, a corporation that is clearly committing suicide in plain sight of everyone (exploding batteries, overpriced Windows boxes, DRM 'rootkit' nightmares, withdrawal from the Cell processor, and finally the most expensive, entirely game-less, next-gen platform.)

Imagine, Sony couldn't even get Grand Tourismo HD on the shelf within a year after this consoles nosedive onto the market. Grand Tourismo is thier own damn game... it is such a poor corporate response to customers, they way they've released the PS3, that I am tempted to think it is a cruel joke.

I know, I know, there is nothing as common as potential, wasted.
This company (Sony) should adopt this phrase as its slogan.

'Welcome to Sony, where there is nothing more common than potential, wasted.'

I know this story was about IBM, but see what happened -
half or more of the posts were about Sony.

I bet IBM and Tosh are happier than can be that Sony is going away and taking its self destructive, profit burning curse with it. This must be payback for the hundreds of millions of over priced consumer electronics they've sold the world.]]>Nov 12th 2007 8:31PM