PSUni writes:
"It has been confirmed that IBM will be pulling out of Cell development, with their current PowerXCell 8i to be the company's last entrance in the technology.
The Cell Processor was originally the brain child of 'The Father of PlayStation' Ken Kutaragi. It was later co-developed by Sony, IBM and Toshiba; making it's way into the PlayStation 3, TV's and super computers.
Featuring a central general-purpose processor, the Cell includes a number of co-processing units with internal memory, known as SPUs. Greatly increasing performance, the Cell's SPUs have been notoriously difficult to develop for, with a number of developers, such as Naughty Dog, making significant breakthroughs of late.
IBM's most recent development in the Cell Processor's design is the PoweXCell 8i, which is featured in the second most powerful supercomputer in the world; Roadrunner.
However, this is where Cell will end for IBM."
Life is Strange developer Don't Nod currently has five unannounced games in the pipeline.
NoobFeed editor Jay Claassen writes - One Last Breath looks great from a distance but that notion changes very quickly when you start playing it. There’s endless potential and it needs a ton more polish before it can really take off but even then, there needs to be more intrigue to hold anybody’s attention.
WTMG's Leo Faria: "I tried not to compare South Park: Snow Day to The Stick of Truth and The Fractured But Whole, but considering it is still a sequel of sorts, it’s hard not to feel massively disappointed with this game. We went from gorgeous and hilarious RPGs to a bland, boring, uneventful action roguelike with baffling graphical design choices, underwhelming controls, and an overall gameplay loop you have experienced dozens of times before. The sense of humor alone is not worth the admission ticket. After being given some high quality wagyu from Obsidian Entertainment and Ubisoft San Francisco over the past years, it’s hard to go back to this spoiled truck stop beef jerky."
"IBM's most recent development in the Cell Processor's design is the PoweXCell 8i, which is featured in the second most powerful supercomputer in the world; Roadrunner."
I hardly think that is showing that the cell is a failure. IBM is one of the core companies that lead the way in this industry, they are constantly making new technology - so i guess for them, its time to move on.
Anyone who says the cell is a failure is a moron who knows nothing about technology.
power of the Cell ... good for folding ... bad for gaming.
Bye BYe
quote from gamer zone:
"all the great games on the ps3 have something to say regarding that"
Well, imagine an 8 core xbox ... seeing as a three core box can do exactly what an 8 core cell can do ....
They are done with the "Cell". That hardly means they are done with creating new chip sets. I'm sure they've already been working on a new project. Considering the Cell is used in a super computer shows its not a failure.