Nintendo & Sony new systems to be capable of...

[The_Intruder]

I found this interesting news... It was posted today, so is new...

IBM has announced that they have developed a new supercomputer that is capable of proccessing 2 trillion calculations every single second...That's a lot of calculations! Anyway, IBM states that this new chip will be used in both Nintendo and Sony's next videogame consoles.

I don't know much about this kind of things... But it sounds like some powerful stuff... What does it means, about being capable of processing 2 trillion calculations every single second. Are they reffering to the polygons per scond..? What are this things?

[T1249NTSCJØ]

Here is a full article to those who are interested...

http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6083656.html

[Jeff]

I do know that the new Sony and Nintendo sytems will be equal in power if there being made by the same company.

[Daemos]

I found this interesting news... It was posted today, so is new...

IBM has announced that they have developed a new supercomputer that is capable of proccessing 2 trillion calculations every single second...That's a lot of calculations! Anyway, IBM states that this new chip will be used in both Nintendo and Sony's next videogame consoles.

I don't know much about this kind of things... But it sounds like some powerful stuff... What does it means, about being capable of processing 2 trillion calculations every single second. Are they reffering to the polygons per scond..? What are this things?

IBM's supercomputer core will not be in consoles. Please.
The core's dimensions are 1x1 meters. Ever seen a console THAT big? Thought not.

And calculations is not the same as polygons! x_x That is pure ignorance of how computers work.

Calculations is how many instructions the system is able to process. In that case, 2 trillion per second. A version of it to a console would NEVER go anywhere near 0.5 trillion (which is still god damn fast). An instruction can very well be a simple sum of two values, or jumping to somewhere else in the code, etc. It is not related to graphics! Although, these will of course benefit from the extra raw capability.

[Amin]

I didnt think ibm were working on ps3. I thought ibm were making a chip for nintendo and microsoft for there next gen consoles and sony were making there own with the help of toshiba.

[Sonikku]

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[Daemos]

IBM is not working on PS3.

[St. Elmo's Fire]

They have their hand in all three next consoles, according to Kenshiro who knows his stuff, but obviously they'll only pull the best stuff out the bag for MS...

[Daemos]

Not sure. Usually who gives the best stuff to MS is Intel.

[St. Elmo's Fire]

But any company including IBM will want to be on MS's "good side" by giving them the best of stuff...I had forgotten (D'oh!) about Intel and MS though...the nearly-a-PC aspect of the Xbox is one of its greatest attractions too IMO...we'll have to see what the IBM chip is like...(Probably made to easily run PC stuff I'd guess, the Sony and Nintendo ones won't be, just a guess...)

[kenshiro]

We'll just have to wait and see which console is the most powerful. But just b/c IBM is involved with all 3 doesn't mean you are going to get the same or "similar" chips in all of them. Each company has different priorities:

Sony is codeveloping the "cell" with IBM and Toshiba and targeting it for multiple applications, not just for gaming.

MS will design the chip with some IBM input and it will be primarily for gaming.

Nintendo needs cheap and "relatively" powerful chip....and fast since it wants to beat the other 2 launch dates.


So by going this, I think Nintendo will come out first with their console, but it will be the weakest. And going by Sony's past history of "overhype", I don't think the CELL will be the most powerful. Remember what they said about the PS2 before it came out? A game console that is like a supercomputer that can do 75 million polys. Hmm.......I'm still waiting for those 75 million polys.......