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Subject: Re: A write up on the XBox 360 'Xenon' processor.

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 02:57:30 06/04/05

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On June 03, 2005 at 14:35:54, Dan Andersson wrote:

>>Dan, if a program is SMP and adapted to the XBOX 360 and the Sony Playstation
>>III wouldn't the Sony console be the best for chess, and better than any
>>standard or dual PC?
>>
> The Sony console only has one general purpose in order CPU. And that one seems
>to be a rough match to the 'Xenon' core. The additional SPE cores will be pretty
>crappy at executing branchy integer code. They are streaming processors by
>design.
> So I have a hard time believing it will amount to anything close to a high end
>Hammer core.
>
>MvH Dan Andersson

Thanks for answering. How do you feel the XBOX 360 would fair?



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