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		abhinavk 48 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sometimes CPU cores are odd Xbox 360 (which ran a modified version of Win 2000) had 3 PowerPC cores.

extraduder_ire 47 days ago [–]

The ps3 had 7. Also for yield reasons.

quadruple 47 days ago | [–]

Well, the PS3 had 1 PowerPC core, the PPE, with 8 SPEs. One of which gets disabled for yield, another gets taken by the Hypervisor.

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