Did anyone notice?

[Blacklord]

That the PS3 has a dual pool proccesor@3.2GHz and the whole thing cost 300$ when an Xeon cost 1000$. WTF this is daylight robbery!

[Shin_Gouki]

...for sure...do u know how the price of a CPU is determined? and then how the Price of a console? I think not...
thats some very basic buisness economics..(u can't compare it directly..)
wbr Shin Gouki

[Trotterwatch]

PS3 uses the Cell which isn't the Xeon. And the price that Sony are selling for will not be the price that the manufacture and R&D costs, they will offset the costs themselves with losses for the initial period of sales (which is what usually happens anyway).

Don't underestimate buying in bulk either.

[GCFreak]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Cell is an 8-core processor which was made for the PS3. Nothing else.

[Clements]

To be precise, the Cell has one 3.2GHz PowerPC-based core with 7 functioning SPE units (1 is deativated for redundancy). PS3 will almost certainly be sold at a loss. Most Xeons are not $1000.

[Blacklord]

yeah but think of the incredible advanteges it could provide if it could be hooked up to a comp.

[SWAT_Marc]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Cell is an 8-core processor which was made for the PS3. Nothing else.

I think IBM made it to be included in many different electronic devices besides the PS3, such as HD-TV, Servers, etc.

[TerraPhantm]

Sony bought the rights to the cell processor IIRC. Either way the cell processor is based on the PPC architecture, which IMO is pretty crappy anyways.

[smcd]

PPC aren't crap. They're actually very nice chips

[TerraPhantm]

I have my doubts about that, Apple seems to have shared my opinion as well (hence their switch to intel)