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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => PS3 Discussion => Topic started by: Evi on November 03, 2004, 11:05:10 AM
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Some people are just stupid. This is from the same source as the other article...and they\'re making @sses of themselve a few days later:
"Unfortunately some very old (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12523), and very unfounded rumors (http://alexalbrecht.typepad.com/alex/2004/10/rumorrumor_rumo.html) have been circulating the net and even our staff was bit by the bug. Rumors regarding IBM providing the same chipsets for the next generation Xbox as the PS3, is false and completely unfounded.
As has been reported before, Microsoft is in NEGOTIATIONS with IBM to provide chipsets for their next generation system (expectedly a PowerPC derivative, not the Cell architecture). What this will entail or whether or not Microsoft and IBM will finalize a deal have yet to be decided. These types of contracts are always negotiable until a few months before the launch of a system and in no way represent the final embodiment of the next generation Xbox.
Furthermore the IBM supplied chipsets could be used for a verity of functions which may have nothing to do with graphics processing. Logic units are utilized to provide control over memory, peripheral control, and even multi-core scheduling. These negotiations in no way represent even the hint that IBM may provide the same computational or graphics processing chipsets for both customers, that is completely asinine. Moreover the connection to Sony is like 7-degrees of Kevin Bacon to Snow White- read: bullshit. Sony has no connection to the next generation Xbox other than it is a competitor thereof. That my friends- are where the rumors end."
:rolleyes: Well this makes sense...but now I don\'t trust anything they say...idiots...
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On the other hand.....
It\'ll be just a little trick to legally name the same cpu tech totally different.
It would also be more easy and cost efficient, for IBM, to NOT develope 2 very different cpu chipsets. Ati\'s already covering Xbox2\'s GPU, so graphics processing in itself has nothing to do with this.
I know... rumors are indeed just rumors, but.....
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xbox is shit they might have better graphics but there still shit
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^^^^
The Xbox is NOT "shit"...it\'s just merely larger than most...............couches...
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...must....resist....
ack!
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^^^
I was resisting too, as a newb just came in to say something stupid of the Xbox...but I didn\'t let it bother me, I just wrote some BS...just like you shouldn\'t let it bother you either...
*Chill out*