[geeks] New SGI workstation

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:50:05AM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:

> > > Another large (the largest, I think) consumer of MIPS CPUs is also migrating
> > > to a different architecture:  Sony.  The Playstation 3 is supposed to use a
> > > custom CPU.
> > 
> > Sony already uses custom CPUs.  They just licensed the MIPS core to use
> > in their custom CPUs.  As it is, in the PS2, most of the hard work is
> > done by the custom parts, not the MIPS part. 
> 
> Don't they get a small licensing fee for each CPU?

I don't know.  My point was that to say the PS3 is going to have a
custom CPU doesn't tell us much since it the PS2 and PSone both already
have custom CPUs.