Re:Meltdown and Spectre
by bboozzoo on Thursday January 04, 2018 @11:51AM
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Isn't that exactly what made PS3 hard to develop for?
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Re:Meltdown and Spectre
by scott_karana on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:08PM
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Yep. It bad to develop for, and left lots on the table compared to its contemporary Xbox 360, despite "theoretically" better specs. 1
The Cell processor was never used in any other consoles, and the IBM Roadrunner supercomputer using them ended up being replaced by Cray+AMD hardware.
1 https://kotaku.com/5885358/why-skyrim-didnt-play-nice-with-t...