In reply to: Believe it or not, the original research was directed toward military applications I've been in electronics long enough to just take that for granted. Almost every new consumer item is actually an obsolite mil-spec item.
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Any other gamers and gadget geeks here?
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I worked at the same company, and I got to play with a protype tank warfare simulation "game", and then it stopped, because I didn't have the right security clearance / need to know to continue. Compared to the arcade games of the time, it had kickass graphics.
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In reply to: ...can't resist sticking down my pants when it starts rumbling. I thought I was the only one who did that. eyes shift
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maybe technologically wasn't the right word to use, what i meant was that it is capable of displaying better-looking graphics.and the celeron is superscalar as well, just like every processor made since 1998.
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...using that super-fancy nVidia graphics chip.
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I think I heard that they are changing to an ATI chipset for the next generation of Xbox, making it not backwards compatable with your exsiting game library.
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Microsoft is pulling an Apple (680x0 -> PowerPC -> Pentium)? They're going in the wrong direction.
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Last I heard, the XBox360 was going to be running a POWER5, which is IBMs top of the line server processor (I'm an AIX admin, so I get to play with the IBM big-iron here at work). It's a massively powerful processor, but it's still going to get owned by the cell.
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Interesting. I worked with smaller-scale PowerPC (4xx series) chips in telecom gear a few years back. Because Pentiums at the time ran so hot, and the equipment was air-cooled, you could only fit a couple of Pentiums on a card, but you could fit a bunch of PowerPCs...which meant a lot more compute power in a given space. We had a "consulting" relationship with Intel, so we knew about the then forthcoming M series, but it was too far into the future.