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.

Comments

Re:Go Sony, go!

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Go Sony, go!

[Bromskloss]

AND they're not trying to make it the center of your digital home.

My other home is a digital home.

Does it really matter?

[MartinJW]

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

Re:Go Sony, go!

[booch]

Lynx OS?

Re:Go Sony, go!

[DA-MAN]

512 MiB

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