The new PS3 by Sony is IBM made. The "Cell" technology is based off of the work done in PPC.
In bigger news, Microsoft itself is using a new triple-core PPC design in their upcoming Xbox 360. And if that wasn't cool enough, the first dev kits for game developers were Macs running Windows (well, the Xbox OS is based off of Windows so I can generalize that statement a bit). :) More at: http://www.gamespot.com/features/6124293/p-3.html Excerpt: The Xbox 360 will have a custom-designed IBM processor that has three processing cores, each capable of handling two threads, or two separate applications. Six total threads provides a lot of processing power, but it adds to the software complexity, because you now have to manage resources between all the processes. [*snip*] The 165-million transistor chip will run at 3.2GHz, and it'll have a vacuum-sealed, water-cooled heat sink to handle heat dissipation. David Sommers, Architect | Dialog Medical -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Leo Zimmer Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 1:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] Starting point for next OpenVistA VivA > However, the biggest volume of POWER architecture chips may not be > Mac computers. I understand that the Nintendo Gamecube may use a POWER > chip. Can someone confirm this? > * IBM PowerPC, 486 MHz * ATI graphics * 40 MB of total RAM * 8 cm optical drive * (optional) 10/100 Ethernet can run linux http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
