Mr. Shippy and Ms. Phipps detail the resulting absurdity: IBM employees hiding their work from Sony and Toshiba engineers in the cubicles next to them; the Xbox chip being tested a few floors above the Cell design teams. Mr. Shippy says that he felt "contaminated" as he sat down with the Microsoft engineers, helping them to sketch out their architectural requirements with lessons learned from his earlier work on Playstation.



Mr. Shippy 与 Ms. Phipps对这个惊人结果是如此说明:IBM职员对SONY和东芝的芯片设计者隐藏着他们在做什么,并且XBOX360的处理器是在离CELL设计团队几层楼高的地方(比如说:CELL团队在2楼,那么XBOX360的处理器设计是在6楼或者7楼8楼..- -;不过,他们在同一幢楼)进行着测试...


Mr. Shippy说到:他把在PLAYSTATION团队学到的东西应用在和XBOX团队开发者研究XBOX新主机处理器的时候,他感觉自己也被污染了..




All three of the original partners had agreed that IBM would eventually sell the Cell to other clients. But it does not seem to have occurred to Sony that IBM would sell key parts of the Cell before it was complete and to Sony's primary videogame-console competitor. The result was that Sony's R&D money was spent creating a component for Microsoft to use against it.


IBM没有顾忌与SONY和东芝的合约还是把CELL卖给了其他顾客(微软).但是,SONY连做梦都没有想到CELL的重要部分(KEY PARTS)在CELL还没开发完成之前就已经被他们的竞争对手得到.

结论上就是SONY为CELL付出的钱花在了创造XBOX360处理器上了..


内幕真血腥，除了SONY傻还能不能说IBM和微软都很厚道呢？

IBM没有顾忌与SONY和东芝的合约还是把CELL卖给了其他顾客(微软).
--------------------------
刚没看原文，这里翻译有误
IBM,SONY,TOSHIBA三方达成协议可以出售CELL，不过IBM把CELL给微软的时候，协议并没有达成