I remember when the HP PA-RISC chip was being reviewed for the next Amiga. I had room for 4 cores. 1 cpu core, the 'AAA' chip, a DSP chip and I forget what else...possibly a Kickstart 'rom'...
ATI's latest technology includes physics processing on the GPU...and this is part of DirectX 10. They also hinted that some of this would be in Nintendo's new GPU. Just watch "The Last Word" feature on Gamespot.com ...
Some one mentioned that the Cell's purpose was do be able to do it all on one chip...including graphics. In that sense it's already a failure. Sony had to give up on the graphics capabilities of the Cell and sign up NVidia.
I like ATI's approach to the GC and Wii. It has an integrated gpu, northbridge, southbridge, dsp and ppu in one tight package. Might I also mention that the GC's PPC cpu is/was a quite capable desktop cpu and since 'Broadway' is going to be 100% backwards compatible with it, so will Wii's cpu.
I would toot the 360's horn but I imagine contracts between Nintendo and ATI prevented Microsoft from getting such an integrated package from technology in the Flipper to have evolved into the Xbox 360...just look at how big it is.
On the GC people only complained about the lack of RAM and USB ports (for storage) to run a proper desktop OS. Still even with 24+16MB AROS would have been great for it running off a 4GB SD card. Wii has USB ports and anywhere from 88MB to 128MB. Still more than enough for the 'so-called' light-weight OS that is supposed to be 'OS4'. Also, that 'remote'-controller is superior to a mouse.
