Sony has further progressed in its tactical retreat from the Sony-Toshiba-IBM (STI) alliance originally formed to design and produce the multi-core Cell processor, with news that it will be dumping the research and development side of the equation.
The first step was to cut out more functionality.
I don’t find this move at all surprising, considering Sony is doing its best to not bleed money. Also, when you see the likes of Sun running its mouth off on its upcoming 16-core UltraSPARC chips, and Intel throwing around its research on 80-core processors, the 9 cores in Cell seem, well, piss weak.
(Yes, 9 cores – 8 SPEs and 1 PowerPC processor. Don’t be a hater.)
Sony Giving Up on Cell Chip R&D [GameDaily]
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