PS3 Cell CPU Is Doing Bad. Really Bad.
July 12th, 2006 Posted in Business, Hardware, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Rumor, Technology
TheInquirer once again reports on bad yields of the Cell CPU, the main brain of the PS3. Last time a lot of Sony fanboys tried to disprove INQ, and now it seems that a very credible source, IBM, confirms problems with the PS3 hardware. IBM Semiconductor VP Tom Reeves says in an interview with Reed-Electonics the yields on the Cell are horrible, down to 10-20 percent. He also talked about backwards compatibility and how Sony priorities that (very) high.
Read (TheInquirer)