Sorry to burst your bubble but PS3 only has 1 core. That core has 1 general purpose PPC and 7 SPE's (8 SPE's are physically on the chip but only 7 are enabled to inprove manufacturing yields). The SPE's are somewhat like programable DSP's but nothing like a normal CPU.
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Jagster @ Jan 11th 2008 2:43PM
Sorry to burst your bubble but PS3 only has 1 core. That core has 1 general purpose PPC and 7 SPE's (8 SPE's are physically on the chip but only 7 are enabled to inprove manufacturing yields). The SPE's are somewhat like programable DSP's but nothing like a normal CPU.