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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.
welcome our new dev kit overlords.
sorry I don't even know how that applies here. It just needed to be said.
"This is the Inquirer, so take with a grain of salt."
Should read "This is a positive for Microsoft, so take with a grain of salt. Poke holes in the theory and continue the Jihad! Microsoft is evil! Thought is not needed, this is Slashdork!"
That Ken Kutaragi let his loser long-lost baby brother design the PS3 without looking at the thing or its price tag until it was unvieled?
Monstar L
Boy, it's a good thing it's not meant to be a gaming only system!
Yes, that was sarcasm.
tinfoilmedia
Exactly. I'd rather have a console that has a 3-core cpu, 512 MiB memory, 20 GiB hardrive, and etherner ports. Oh wait...
... because they might be lying outright and might have photoshopped something!
Note: PS3 is a console for real men, Wheeee! is a toy for Linux-users and other faggots.
Not trying to flamebait here, but what is one of the OS's that will be running on PS3? Hint, it starts with L and ends with X.
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This reminds me, I am certain to be cruicified for not remembering this bit of trivia, but the PS3 is looking more and more like that car that Homer designed for his brother....
What was that called again?
On Wall Street they say "buy low, sell high" On the pad we say, "buy high, sell high" Isn't that somehow better?
I thought we had all boycotted Sony anyway! Or are we on another bandwagon this week?
Noticed the logo on the bottom left of the slide. Maybe it should have read
DeviStation
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"I assume the local memory is not going to be used much for 'reading'"
So what are we talking about here, write-only memory?
What is this dotslash of which you speak?
This guy's the limit!
you forgot UMD player except this UMD will not be compatible with the PSP umd and will require you to install a rootkit on your desktop to get online and update your subscription to ATRAC unlimited in the sony music store
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Not trying to flamebait here, but what is one of the OS's that will be running on PS3? Hint, it starts with L and ends with X.
Yeah, but does it run linux...oh, nevermind
When you see "No this isn't a Typo" on the front page of slashdot, be very skeptical.
Lynx OS?
Software sucks. Open Source sucks less.
>> Talk about a steak in the heart.
His cardiologist isn't going to be happy about that...
I'm gonna need a HUGE grain of salt to go with that steak.
You can have my SIG when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
512 MiB
Well theres your problem, fitting 512 Men in Black into any console is going to cause heat problems. . .
Can I get an eye poke?
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