informed speculation on IBM's 'Broadway' processor

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Nov 1, 2005, 11:58:56 AM11/1/05

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IBM's PowerPC-based CPU called 'Broadway' for the Nintendo Revolution
is almost definitally going to be based on one of two designs: a.) the
PPE (PowerPC Processing Element ) that is used in Xenon/Waternoose
(Xbox 360's triple-core CPU) and Cell --
or b.) the PowerPC 970FX.

Ars Technica speculates in this article:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/revolution.ars

really worth reading. Hannibal thinks that Broadway (Revolution's CPU)
is going to be the best next-gen CPU for gameplay control code and will
have the largest L2 cache at 2 MB (Xbox 360 CPU has 1 MB of L2 and
PS3's Cell has half a MB (512K). that makes perfect sense--Gamecube's
Gekko CPU had the largest amount of L2 cache of any current-gen
console, 256K, compared to 128K in Xbox CPU and even less in PS2's
Emotion Engine. the Revolution's Broadway CPU is likely to have 1 or
2 PPE cores and would therefore be able to process 2 or 4 threads, but
would be more effecient and easier to use than either Xbox360's
tri-core Xenon CPU or PS3's Cell.

keith

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Nov 1, 2005, 9:59:03 PM11/1/05

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Oh, my!

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Computer Freak

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Nov 2, 2005, 12:53:31 PM11/2/05

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this is just a test. I am checking if i can start posting essages, but
the topic you are discussing is so interesting.

Computer Freak

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Nov 2, 2005, 2:09:48 PM11/2/05

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this is another test. Hope it works this time. I wondery why my
messages are not displayed?

Computer Freak

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Nov 2, 2005, 2:09:51 PM11/2/05

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Joe Pfeiffer

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Nov 2, 2005, 3:05:41 PM11/2/05

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"Computer Freak" <nivine...@gmail.com> writes:

> this is another test. Hope it works this time. I wondery why my
> messages are not displayed?
>

They are. Some mailreaders and some mailservers are configured so you
don't see your own posts; the rest of us have seen at least three from
you.

It is customary to send test messages to alt.test, rather than
clogging three newsgroups with crossposted tests.
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Wes Felter

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Nov 2, 2005, 8:14:58 PM11/2/05

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On 2005-11-01 10:58:56 -0600, "multi-core" <multicore...@yahoo.com> said:

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> IBM's PowerPC-based CPU called 'Broadway' for the Nintendo Revolution
> is almost definitally going to be based on one of two designs: a.) the
> PPE (PowerPC Processing Element ) that is used in Xenon/Waternoose
> (Xbox 360's triple-core CPU) and Cell --
> or b.) the PowerPC 970FX.

No love for the 750?

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Del Cecchi

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Nov 2, 2005, 10:39:16 PM11/2/05

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"Computer Freak" <nivine...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> this is another test. Hope it works this time. I wondery why my
> messages are not displayed?
>

Becuz u r n idiot too stupid to read usenet. Which group do you read,
moron?

Trent

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Nov 3, 2005, 11:41:00 AM11/3/05

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On 02 Nov 2005 13:05:41 -0700 Joe Pfeiffer <pfei...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote in
Message id: <1b7jbqg...@viper.cs.nmsu.edu>:

>"Computer Freak" <nivine...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> this is another test. Hope it works this time. I wondery why my
>> messages are not displayed?
>>
>
>They are. Some mailreaders and some mailservers are configured so you
>don't see your own posts; the rest of us have seen at least three from
>you.
>
>It is customary to send test messages to alt.test, rather than
>clogging three newsgroups with crossposted tests.

Testing... testing...

keith

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Nov 4, 2005, 8:00:38 PM11/4/05

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Your article didn't get posted. Try again.

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Rodrick Brown

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Nov 6, 2005, 6:56:54 PM11/6/05

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no problems here

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