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PS3 Cell Processor 'Broken'?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-drinking dept.

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.

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  1. How much you want to bet by antifoidulus · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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  2. Re:Go Sony, go! by the_humeister · · Score: 4, Funny

    Exactly. I'd rather have a console that has a 3-core cpu, 512 MiB memory, 20 GiB hardrive, and etherner ports. Oh wait...

  3. Re:Go Sony, go! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:Go Sony, go! by Bromskloss · · Score: 5, Funny
    AND they're not trying to make it the center of your digital home.
    My other home is a digital home.
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  5. That one Simpsons episode by August_zero · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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    1. Re:That one Simpsons episode by The+Infidel · · Score: 3, Funny

      Probably the finest analogy I've ever seen on /.

  6. Does it really matter? by MartinJW · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought we had all boycotted Sony anyway! Or are we on another bandwagon this week?

  7. DevStation? by mustafap · · Score: 4, Funny

    Noticed the logo on the bottom left of the slide. Maybe it should have read

    DeviStation

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  8. Re:Why ./ is bashing Sony so much? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

    What is this dotslash of which you speak?

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  9. Re:Go Sony, go! by mobby_6kl · · Score: 3, Funny
    Even better - it starts with "linux" and ends with "linux"
    I'm not sure I understand you. Will it match /^linux$/i or /^[linux]+$/i ?
  10. Re:Go Sony, go! by booch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lynx OS?

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  11. Re:Go Sony, go! by DA-MAN · · Score: 5, Funny

    512 MiB

    Well theres your problem, fitting 512 Men in Black into any console is going to cause heat problems. . .

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