A UC Berkeley paper [PDF] recently submitted to the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium manages to highlight two common and seemingly unrelated themes that have come up a number of times over the past few years in my reporting on the high-performance computing (HPC) space: 1) IBM's Cell is really good at HPC workloads when you invest the time to write custom code for it, and 2) Intel's Xeon platform is perennially bandwidth starved and not very power-efficient.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
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That's my PS3 and my PC(CPU) 1 & 2 :)
But like they explain, the benchmark test was written exclusive for the Cell as its architecture is vastly different from the others, but it seem the Cells knight in shining armor is the RDRAM.
who has it
is that proponents of Microsoft's machine always tout on about how the PS3 is "bottle-necked" for memory, and thus stifled in terms of performance.
In this study (which won an award, mind you), the Xeon was the processor most affected by memory, not the Cell. Aren't the processors in 360s some variant of Xeon architecture?
If so, it pretty much negates all those 'PS3/bottle-neck/ memory' rants, as the 360s on the short side of the stick here.
I'm not looking to flame, just looking for information.
Cheers,
-C
no chris this is not the same xeon as in the 360, the xbox chip is called XENON, the 360's chip is made by ATI not Intel. IBM made both processors for the 360 an PS3 but Nvidia made the GRAPHICS chip for the PS3( cell doesnt do the graphics) an ATI made the graphics chip for the 360!!
Of course!!! ;-P