@BrianK

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The Cell + RSX was a less integrated design than the Xenon + Xenos.

There's a reason why Toshiba uses the RSX with the Cell, it actually is.

If you mean by "integrated" "bottle-necking" then yes, the Xenon and Xenos share one bus to memory. But everyone knows having seperate buses is better for performance. The Xenon is plainly a triple core CPU, with cores being very similar to the PPE of the Cell, but of course it's the SPEs and the overall design which makes the Cell so special.

So the Xenon is not specially geared towards the Xenos design, it just borrowed the less interesting and less remarkable PPE design from the Cell implemented in a more traditional manner.

Last edited by MikeB on 24-Sep-2009 at 06:36 PM.