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There's an interesting book called The Race for a New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3 by David Shippy and Mickie Phip
by sillywalk 2y ago
There's an interesting book called The Race for a New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3 by David Shippy and Mickie Phipps on the development of the Cell processor.
I can't recall if if had all the details regarding adding a GPU to the PS3, but I remember it had stories about the awkwardness of having the IBM Cell team also working on Microsoft's Xenon CPU for the 360, which IIRC used modified Cell PPE cores.
- rbanffy 2y ago> Microsoft's Xenon CPU This was another interesting take on the CPU for consoles. The 360 was born with a GPU, however.