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So it's a 4x4. makes sense.. 4 cores.. with "4 virtual cores" or threads each. Not 16 full cores. But must be better for doing multiple things at once still.

4 cores at 4 threads each apparently.

Still impressed with that. 16 cores blew me away and I couldn't believe it but 4 cores with 4 hw threads per is still amazing. Most modern games still aren't using the entire 4 cores in pc gaming.

microsoft didnt steal a design both chips were made in the same place, with different designs lol

PPC in both machines is the same design. http://www.amazon.co...e/dp/0806531010

the ppc but not the rest, microsoft asked ibm to make them a cpu,ibm used there experience and rushed one out lol

MS did just this last time. Back when 360 first came out most pc's were running a single core and some enthusiasts were running dual core. MS came out with a tricore cpu with two hardware threads per core. They paid extra for future technologym that wasn't yet available to consumers off the shelf.

Same with the gpu at the time. MS paid ati a boatload of money for the new technology of the time which was a unified shader architecture which wasn't yet available to consumers.

What did sony do?

Oh they cam out with their own cell which nobody knew how to code for. And they used a two year old gpu architecture. 360 was way ahead of it's time at release and pc gamers should recognise that MS facilitates pc gaming development by giving devs incentive to use the hardware which translates to better looking games on pc because MS got the ball rolling with future tech in their console.

Plus all current cpu's had two threads per core so they've already figured out how to develop . It's just adding extra cores and threads per core. Cell is a different cpu altogether and isn't even close to pc standards. It has 1 core +spe's. The gen cpus and pc gaming will only increase in cores and 4 threads is just an evolution of a perfected technology which was 2 hardware threads per core currently. The main difference is that there are more cores and extra threads. When have any of you ever said that a dual core with two threads per core was better than quad core with two threads per core. The only difference is that MS is going with monster 16 core. 4x the current standard cpu and two extra threads per core. It's a big difference but anyone who thinks it's gonna hinder dev doesn't know shit about hardware. A 16 core power pc is a whole lot differenct than a sony custom cell processor. lmao

devs had a hard enough time programming for cell and you think this 64 thread cpu is gonna look good?? lmao

16 core cpu

not 16 thread cpu

16 core cpu with 4 threads each is 64 threads

lmao pretending that this still isn't amazing technology. rofl

only servers require this many cores, maybe ms will be running servers off your xbox and still charge you.

It's funny how you don't know shit.

I hope this is true. lol,

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