lostinblue
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Was it?szaromir said:Yeah, but this was done by a Microsoft team.
-> How Sony's Development of the Cell Processor Benefited Microsoft
Microsoft is a very poor hardware builder, proof of that being the RROD that plagued them for half a generation, they subcontract every part and then meshed it up at some chinese factory without running stress tests and verifying all parts worked well amongst them without a high failure rate; when microsoft is building hardware there's usually not a vision or some sort of end goal to it, Sony goes all out and is very proprietary (against themselves) with the chips/architectures they use, nintendo looks for paralelism and balancing effectively often downclocking the maximum clockrate de CPU, RAM or GPU would give in order to make the architecture more parallel (they also believe in price/quality balancing rather than using high end parts for everything) but invest in RAM, and Microsoft Well, microsoft asks manufacturers what do they have on the shelf, basically; with Xbox it was a celeron 733 a nvidia nforce as a northbridge and a geforce 3 and with Xbox 360 it was a custom R500 (custom because ATi was still playing with it) and Cell's PPE trippled.
If it was done IBM and AMD did it, on their own, by Microsoft's request.
Anyway I'd like to see link's, the information of previous communication like that and in what terms is interesting.