Sony sued (again) for patent violation, injunction sought on PS3 sales

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SimbaDogg @ Jul 31st 2007 6:20AM

Umm...why would they be going after sony...from what i remember the cell processor was chiefly designed by IBM and toshiba, and mostly bankrolled by sony. but anyways, as far as multi-core processors...any 100% familiar w/ how the cell differs in operation from the pentium d, core2duo, and amd athlons all running multiple cores?

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Karan @ Jul 31st 2007 6:25AM

Sony's been paying out on patent lawsuits recently - I think the word has got around the patent troll cottage industry.

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Dude @ Jul 31st 2007 6:27AM

The cell only contains one asymmetric core and in the case of the ps3 version 7 symmetric ones, basically the dual and quad cores from intel and amd each core can process any of the threads and any kind of data, symmetric processors are only able to process one kind of data at a time... they usually do it in groups of threads... but yeah... the cell is just really good at streaming floating point work, like physics and graphics type calculations...

at least thats how i understand it

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Juke Box Hero @ Jul 31st 2007 10:42AM

Just to add to the "why would they be going after sony" question...

The Wii and Xbox360 both use the Cell processor as well (or at least some variant of). Are these patent trolls gonna go after Nintendo and Microsoft too?

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alexhrose71 @ Jul 31st 2007 12:57PM

Jukebox : The Wii and 360 do not use any technology related to the Cell at all. The Wii does not contain any additional cores or SPUs. The 360 CPU consists of 3 GPU cores on one die, and is more closely related to the intel and AMD multi-core processors than the Cell which mates one GPU with multipled special-purpose GPUs.

The cell design allows you to add many more cores for less complexity and cost than the intel/amd/360 CPU design but is also hampered by the fact that an SPU is less versatile than a GPU.

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Juke Box Hero @ Jul 31st 2007 2:18PM

Dang it! You are correct, the XBox uses a multi-core flavor the PowerPC CPU and the Wii uses the Broadway chip...both designed and produced by IBM, but alas not Cell procs...

That's the last time I trust an IBM sales person! Enterprise Briefing my @ss...

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me @ Aug 11th 2007 12:08PM

i assume its because unlike toshiba and IBM sony have gone out and sold the cell processor under their own name.

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