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Why make BOTH the Xbox360 3-core PPC AND the Cell? Seems to me that the Cell would work well in the Xbox360, so why come up with a different processor? Game (and all) developers want to do the coding ONCE, ESPECIALLY for the same architecture! Seems to me that to take advantage of the Cell, you would need to write code that is different from the Xbox360 chip, which is different from the Power5 chip, which is different from the G5 chip which are all PPCs . . .
Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 11/15/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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What I don't get  Roger Ramjet | 11/15/05
I didn't either  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 11/15/05
Copying Apple? I think not.  mdemuth | 11/15/05
I don't think going to Intel is copying MS  MacGeek2121 | 11/16/05
And the question remains... WHY?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/15/05
Toshiba  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 11/15/05
No market...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/15/05
I don't agree - but others do  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 11/15/05
Why not?  Robert Crocker | 11/15/05
PowerPC is NOT the Cell... Not even close.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/15/05
Maybe AmigaOS would work  Roger Ramjet | 11/15/05
Well, actually there is lots of code for it  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 11/15/05
Sure, it play emulator.. But as you said there is no benefit  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/15/05
Cell is PowerPC, PowerPC is not Cell.  B.O.F.H. | 11/15/05
No... Not even close.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/15/05
Absolutely right  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 11/15/05
Murph, come on, there is NO PORTING to this CPU  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/15/05
A little company called Sony  Richard Flude | 11/15/05
Maybe, but I don't see it happening soon...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/15/05
Apple needs Intel's advertising $.  robtomba | 11/23/05

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