IBM Talks PS3 Processor, Backwards Compatibility

In a new interview with Reed's Electronic News, Tom Reeves, VP of semiconductor and technology services at IBM, has spoken candidly about the future of microchip manufacturing, focusing on the IBM-co-designed Cell processor, which is used by Sony's PlayStation 3.

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achira7176d ago

good and interesting article.

shotty7176d ago

10 to 20% yield on cell doesn't sound good for sony. Also doesn't it worry people when he talks about it like if it's within warranty you return it if not tough luck. It seems to me that the SPE have a tendency to stop working after a certain period which is why they are trying for 8 SPE so it 1 breaks then it's alright but more than 1 then your screwed, too bad if you started with 7. For the people intent on getting a ps3 get a 3 or higher year warranty from a reliable store like best buy because something tells me this isn't the last we hear of dying SPEs.

ASTAROTH7174d ago

The article is about Sony internal development teams you MORON. Sony's internal are amongst the best developers in the industry surpassed only by nintendos internal development teams. Wait till these guy exploit what can be done with the PS3.

PS360PCROCKS7174d ago

That was uncalled for...all he was saying is that if one fails the PS3 will fail as well so get a warranty last I checked that was clearly stated in the article, about that though I never though about that, the PS3 has so many things that can break, it's like having 8 processors in one box, I hope they dont screw these launch ones up for people

Cyclonus7174d ago

from a SonyZombie like Asstaroth. they only know how to respond with hate and vitriol

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Nintendo's partners are selling $2 billion in shares — here's what that actually means

Nintendo announced Friday that several of its long-time partners, including DeNA, will sell off some ¥300 billion in company shares.

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Mobile revenue remained flat across 2025, but PC gaming "sees another record year"

Digital intelligence and analytics firm Sensor Tower has released its State of Gaming 2026 report, revealing flat growth in mobile game revenue, double-digit growth for PC and console gaming, and another record year for PC, with more games sold on Steam than ever before.

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Metacritic Removes Resident Evil 9 Review From Fake AI Writer

Kotaku writes: "A Resident Evil Requiem review published by long-standing UK gaming news site Videogamer has been removed from Metacritic after readers pointed out it was written by a fake AI journalist who doesn’t actually exist. Videogamer‘s human masthead was gutted last week, sources tell Kotaku, and the site has been publishing apparent genAI slop ever since."

1nsomniac3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Genuinely well done on metacritic for taking such an immediate hard stance. Not often, if at all, you see that these days. Credit where it’s due.

Eonjay3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

This is really sad on so many levels. Not least of all the fact that all the human lost their jobs to a language model. Can we block all content coming from Videogamer site. Can we make a rule that content sumitted to N4G must be greated by a human being.

I'm gonna report every Videogamer article I see on N4G from now on so just putting it out there.

Christopher2d ago

N4G doesn't allow AI-generated content. Please report as you see necessary.

Mr_cheese2d ago

Isnt videogamer one of the N4G owner run sites?

Seems to fit their MO to cut corners and push cheap dribble.

Christopher2d ago

Check the last time one of their articles was added to the site.

OMGitzThatGuy2d ago

Check my comments, over a year ago I was calling out videogamer and N4G on their AI articles pushing slop 24/7

Christopher2d ago

I can confirm that those older articles were not AI, just not great.

TheColbertinator2d ago

It is amazing but I'm starting to slightly miss the moron gaming press we had in the 2010s because at least they were human.

MrDead2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

It was "written" by Asha Sharma I hear.

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