1 Dec
2006
1 Dec
'06
8:23 p.m.
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
--- Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org>
wrote:
More like, it depends.
A standard Cell ASIC has a dual threaded PowerPC 64 core and eight SPU
cores. On a Playstation only seven functioning SPU cores are
guaranteed/required.
So depending on how you count, you can get 8, 9, or 10 cores. I'd go
with 9 -> 8 SPU and a dual thread PPC.
Mike
arcarlini at iee.org wrote:
>>> How about the Sega MegaDrive/Genesis? That ran
a
68000 and Z80.
There have been many multi-cpu consoles; the Sega
Saturn had two Hitachi
RISC CPUs for core processing, plus a host of othe
r
stuff for CDROM,
display, sound... The PlayStation 2 is also
dual-CPU. The PlayStation 3
is a Cell monster, 7 cores you can play with,
wrong!!! Some places state 9, but the last
*official* CPU diagram I saw has 8 cores.
One main core (slightly larger than the others)
and 7 co-cores. (Does that make sense?)