IBM providing CPUs for all three major next-gen consoles

[dammy]

Poster: bloodline Date: 2003/11/17 10:51:02

I'm not sure, this is just a hunch, but... I think IBM make CPU's.

This grid CPU should be pretty interesting if it's got all three game boxes running on it.  Who else is in this developement, Toshiba?

Dammy

[dammy]

Poster: Waccoon Date: 2003/11/18 3:32:03

Is it forged in stone that the XBox2 will be a true PPC, a modified PPC specially tailored for the XBox2, or a completely different hybrid CPU? Microsoft is a HUGE company, and I'm sure they can afford to have modifications made to the PPC core just to suit their interests. Nobody said Microsoft is going to take a G5 and solder it to the XBox2 mobo.

Odds are it's going to be the Sony/IBM/Toshiba distributive CPU.  Is it a PPC at the core, is the big question.  Noting what the game consols are selling for, it's going to be mighty tough for a $400 superduper game consol to have Power4/5 based core in it.

Dammy