wise, from the gamers perspective, why is the Core 2 Extreme better?
In the Cell environment, it’s a Cell processing engine plus a third-party graphics vendor. It’s highly optimized to that workload for giving the gaming experience to the console. I think they’ve done a great job; they’ve actually got a three-operand flow through their architecture, we actually have two. They can do multiply/accumulates based on their architecture, where we do our multiply through SSE [Streaming SIMD Extensions], and on our Core 2 Extreme, we double the SSE performance. It’s actually got a true 128-bit SSE engine, which we market as “Advanced Media Processing.” The PC version of that is a CPU plus a graphics card, sometimes two separate, sometimes more. We have a system out here which has our top-of-the-line microprocessor, the Core 2 (the combined brand for the next-gen CPUs formerly code-named “Conroe” and “Merom”), with a quad Nvidia system for graphics. It’s a different price point: It’s going after the enthusiast gamers, but it can draw a heck of a lot of polygons.
