PS3 and XBox 2 Processors to be Exactly the Same?

Posted by Zonk on Monday November 1, 2004 @05:35AM from the one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other dept.

themuffinking writes "IBM (the manufacturers of some of the parts for the PS3 and Xbox 2) told Alex Albrecht that the processors they are putting in the new PS3 and Xbox2 are going to be the same processor, with the parts around it arranged slightly differently. Alex pried this information out of an IBM employee, likely while interviewing him for the show on which Alex is a cohost, The Screen Savers. Alex equivocates by saying "Now again, this is a rumor... so no Slashdotting". Too late for that, but keep in mind this is just hearsay at this point.

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Huh? by FLAGGR · 2004-11-01 05:41 · Score: 0, Troll

Is this the main CPU for the thing? 'Cause I thought the PS3 was supposed to use their goddamn stupid Cell tech. and the xbox 2 is using the PPC.

If Sony cancelled the Cell cpu, I'll laugh, and have one more thing to point out to Sony fanboys.
To Sum It All Up... by jmole · 2004-11-01 06:15 · Score: 0, Troll

...Microsoft and Sony are going to be doing what Nintendo has done all along with the GameCube if this report is true.