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The best way to get information online is to say the wrong thing. Kudos for enlightening me on this topic!


Actually, Sony and Nintendo were also on POWER at this stage. Sony ran a particularly exotic variant, the "Cell" processor; this used a single POWER core that was tied in a ring architecture to several specialized coprocessors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor)

For the next generation of consoles, AMD's integration of ATI graphics onto a single die CPU/GPU/APU proved irresistible, and both Sony and Xbox switched to AMD x86 variants. The Nintendo Switch adopted the Nvidia Tegra ARM architecure.

IBM essentially had one generation of consoles. I don't know why they didn't fight harder for this market.




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