Ch3tan said:If you read the article it says EA renders for xbox2 and ps3, it doesn't actually say which. Just wanted to get that in before the wanking over which is better starts.
Ch3tan said:Best guesses? So probably the biggest games company in the world is guessing what it will produce for the next flagship consoles?
I think not, if anyone apart from MS and Sony know whats their consoles will be capable fo, its companies like EA which can ensure strong launch titles.
It does however mean that they have countless studios all working with official devkits at the very least, probably with prototype hardware in some cases. Considering the Xbox2/PS3 CPUs are going to be IBM POWER derivatives I'd say they've got a good idea of what they're working with. Sony/IBM already have experimental Cell dev workstations and have had for months, and are going to announce them properly in a weeks time.Being financially successful doesn't give them secret insight into how to program a machine that is as yet unbuilt in final form
According to a report on Team Xbox, Sony is scheduled to reveal finalised plans on the mysterious Cell processor - the one pencilled in to power the PlayStation 3 - at next month’s International Solid State Circuits Conference to be held in San Francisco.
It is claimed that IBM, Sony and Toshiba will present four technical papers at the event showing a 4.6 GHz clock speed for the processor.
The report states that the Cell papers will show:
Multi-thread, multi-core architecture.
Supports multiple operating systems at the same time.
Substantial bus bandwidth to/from main memory, as well as companion chips.
Flexible on-chip I/O (input/output) interface.
Real-time resource management system for real-time applications.
On-chip hardware in support of security system for intellectual property protection.
Implemented in 90 nanometre (nm) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology.
SPOnG has learned that there is a briefing on Tuesday, February 8, under the banner, 'The Design and Implementation of a First-Generation CELL Processor.' This is described as “A CELL Processor is a multi-core chip consisting of a 64b Power architecture processor, multiple streaming processors, a flexible IO interface, and a memory interface controller. This SoC is implemented in 90nm SOI technology. The chip is designed with a high degree of modularity and re-use to maximize the custom circuit content and achieve a high-frequency clock-rate.”
Speakers will be S.Asano, Y. Masubuchi and K.Yazawa from Sony Japan, joined by staffers from IBM and Toshiba. We’ll bring you updates from the show.
So you can draw a static head and move a camera about? Could do that on a ps2 already (albiet not with the resolution of those shots).Bodhi said:I want one. Now.
Danya said:if the CPUs are actually that fast, why have a graphics chip (which they are), you'd be able to software render faster.