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PS3 Cell Processor 'Broken'?
D-Fly writes "Charlie Demerijian at the Inquirer got a look at some insider specs on the PS3, and says, Sony screwed up big time with the Cell processor; the memory read speed on the current Devkits is something like 3 orders of magnitude slower than the write speed; and is unlikely to improve much before the ship date. The slide from Sony pictured in the article is priceless: 'Local Memory Read Speed ~16Mbps, No this isn't a Typo.' Demerjian says when the PS3 comes out a full year after the XBox360, it's still going to be inferior: 'Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360.'" This is the Inquirer, so take with a grain of salt. Just the same, doesn't sound too good for Sony or IBM.
You have to agree to a bunch of things to get to the pdfs but there's a lot of information in them.
/. without twiddling my font size up for all pages and breaking the rest of the internet
Cool, so what am I agreeing to before clicking on the pdf link?
Also, if you have already agreed (would assume its a none disclosure type thing) then why are you breaking that agreement and posting the links to the raw documents?
offtopic protest: This new redesign font sucks, I cannot read
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nono you don't get it man! Sony = bad! Ninendo = Good! Without that how will Zonk ever publish an article again?
If the lag time needs to be changed, they can still fix it.
If they need to lower the price to a reasonable $499 for a non-crippled version, they can still do it.
If they need to alter the Blu-Ray drive, that's why they're testing it.
Please refer to the front cover of your friendly Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, secure your towel in a comfortable position behind your head, and Don't Panic!
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That Charlie Whatshisname is a semi-literate one-eyed imbecile who has a cheek to call himself a journalist. Have a read through some of his past efforts and you'll get the picture. This one is so sloppy and amateurish that it actually annoyed me into writing to him and calling him an idiot, and I'm normally no Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.
He's an utter clown.