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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.
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.