zidane1strife
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x86 has R&D like you wouldn't believe (Why do you think other architectures struggle against x86?) and not just in hardware, but in the software end as well.
Intel's new version of Hyper Threading will be available in the Prescott. Chances are the FPU will be improved, especially the SSE2 units throughput (I suspect it'll be 1 instruction per cycle rather than every other). The CPU will boast a lot of bandwidth and cache. Not to mention Intel's process technology is is about as good as it gets.
Well dude that is nice... but as i've said MS is likely to buy a cheap outdated downgraded intel cpu, if the xbox is anything to go by... I'm sure that with equal R&D into a gaming centered processor intel could very well equal Ibm... but alas they haven't started such a project AFAIK, thus if they were to start a yr from now, they'd have to be pretty good to come up with a significantly superior product with far less R&D time... and still i believe that a cpu and gpu designed to work in conjuction are likelier to work together better, than cpu's and gpu's done separately.
never said XB 2 would be a single chip design, in fact I argued that it will NOT be. Does Sony make their own chips? I thought Toshiba and NEC took care of that. Anyway, Intel and AMD are king of the hill in process technology, which is also reflected in performance figures:
Neither did I. I just mean that already HALF of the important components a.k.a. cpu, aren't likely to be up to par transistor budget wise... just telling u where I believe the Sony transistor budget advantage could come from...
So it boils down to the price/performance of the GPU and I don't see the Japanese foundries being much ahead of the Taiwanese.
And last: While Sony is a big company I seriously doubt they have deeper pockets than Microsoft.
Those taiwanese sure are having fun with their geforce
As for pockets and green dough.... As i've said Sony invested billions into the ps2, and now with two successes in a row, they're likely to invest even more... MS can't just throw 10B$ out of their piggy bank for no reason, without seriously hurting their stock... So MS isn't in another league or anything like that... their value falls low enough.... and things could get nasty.
... have any of you seen a sample CELL running anything? Do they even EXIST yet?
The confidence of the sony big heads in their many ps3 speechs says it all... I mean they obviously know how the thing's progressing, so it's obviously going the way they intended... Surely if they were getting some cr@ppy perf, or came upon an obstacle they couldn't overcome they wouldn't be that confident...