>PS3 has a much slower 2 Ghz Dual Core PPC64 CPU IIRC it's not even a dual core but a single core with two threads. Sony really dropped the ball with the PS3

>PS3 has a much slower 2 Ghz Dual Core PPC64 CPU IIRC it's not even a dual core but a single core with two threads. Sony really dropped the ball with the PS3 chip. It's a shame they invested hundreds of millions or even billions in this new, hot, complicated to use chip, only for it to be completely surpassed by off the shelf x86 parts. Sony though the chip would be so good they could sell it to be used in super computers for years to come, but by the time it was out, x86 had basically caught up and no customers cared about buying their cell processor.