[sdiy] The magic of ARM

[Rainer Buchty]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, rsdio at sounds.wa.com wrote:

> The XBox 360 (2005) has a 3-core PowerPC Xenon, the PlayStation 3 
> (2006) has a PowerPC Cell, the Nintendo Wii (2006) has a PowerPC 
> Broadway and the Wii U will have a 3-core PowerPC Espresso.

Which makes the Wii standing out architecture-wise, as 9 uses a it 
3-core PPC together with a Radeon derivative for graphics.

Xbox One uses an AMD APU 8-core, and so does the PS4.

> If I had time, I could probably find more. It seems to me that PowerPC 
> is preferred for gaming consoles.

Well, on the PS3 the PPC is more or less the "housekeeper", it's up to 
the 8 SPEs to do the "real" computation -- which makes that machine 
rather unpleasant to program. Hence the move to the 8-core APU.

Rainer