IBM to manufacture processors for ps3, gc2 and xbox2?

[ant80]

I cannot believe how little of a coverage this is getting. I read the article in gamesindustry.biz yesterday (which, for some reason i am unable to get today) and this today. imo this is a major news event. Anyone have any more information on this at all?

 

[jiffylube1024]

Yeah, this should be getting more cover. It's different chips in every system, but IBM is apparently making all 3. I thought Sony was going to do their CPU "in-house" like the last one. I guess not!

 

[IncredibleHutch]

This link has already been shown off on anand here

This has been mostly the Xbox aspect of it all but touches a bit on all.

 

[Pocatello]

Perhaps time to buy IBM stock?

 

[Bateluer]

IBM has always been a blue chip stock 😛 Still, they should make a bundle of profit on this. The down side is that it may decrease the quality on their part because they just don't give a damn. Also, if (Console maker) fails to please IBM, IBM could cut them off from chips.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Yeah, this should be getting more cover. It's different chips in every system, but IBM is apparently making all 3. I thought Sony was going to do their CPU "in-house" like the last one. I guess not!

The PS2 is a MIPS based chip isn't it?

 

[nowayout99]

There are still a number of unknown factors.

There's no guarantee yet that IBM is working with Nintendo for the next generation. That was never announced. The GameCube uses a modified G3, but if Nintendo wanted to stay with the same processor family, they could use a Motorola PPC for the next system.

The IBM-MS announcement was vague. For all we know from the press releases, IBM may be manufacturing some kind of CPU, but not R&Ding them. For example, ATI is licensing graphics for the Xbox2, but they're not actually manufacturing the graphic chips.

The PS3 will have IBM's "cell" which we know IBM did R&D. So, still, IBM is double-dipping at the very least in some way.