Revolution Confirmed to be Dual Core?

http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=1627

Announced yesterday (a gargantuan five months after AMD and Intel) and a month after Apple announced it had officially kicked IBM to the curb in favour of its new girlfriend Intel, the PowerPC line has eventually gone dual core. Cue little fanfare for the 970MP, the expected upgrade to the single core 970FX, more commonly known to Apple owners as the G5 processor.

And yet with the metallic rumblings still heard in the distance from the Apple/Intel wedding car and the confetti yet to settle who will buy these long overdue processors? Well, Apple will probably still have a few as it will take awhile to switch over all its next generation of Macs, while the upcoming Xbox 360 and (allegedly arriving) Nintendo Revolution are both confirmed adopters of PowerPC hardware. No doubt some low end servers will also serve up a few sympathy offerings.

I think it was a given that Revolution was probably going to end up with a PowerPC processor due to the GC having one (I think...), but it feels kindof good to see XBox 360 and Revolution in the same sentence. Has low power consumption as well doesn't it? Now we just need to find out what speed it'll be. This isn't confirmed by any stretch of the imagination, but I think this is true and this is going to end up being the basis for Revolution's Hollywood IBM processor.

i know this will sound a little stupid and weak but what does dual core mean?

I think it means that it has 2 processing chips rather then just one, right?

Yep, a dual-core CPU is one that has two independent processors, with their caches and such on one circuit. It allows more things to be ran at once to a good degree without sacrificing parts to make others run better. That's what I get out of it, anyway.

EDIT: Grammar.

[ Edited by Mason on 2005/7/12 14:02 ]

Sounds true to me, as this will allow the Revolution to be quite powerful and also run on less power which Nintendo stated awhile ago.

hmmm, i've also noticed that in interviews where people ask if nintendo could keep up with PS3 and 360 in graphics, they always get the same shit as we'll tell you in the end of the year.

I believe the better question is: Will unreal ungine 3.0 run on it?

Fun fact: IBM is involved in making processors for ALL three next generation consoles. The Cell is co-developed by IBM, Toshiba, and Sony. IBM is the only one of the three that has chip fabrication facilities (to my knowledge, but they are the ones who will be making the Cell processor, nevertheless). The Cell, however, isn't a PPC processor.

I'm sure Apple realized this and figured IBM will release new PPC processors even less than they do now. Intel makes processors for computers and can meet every PC manufacturers' needs.

Will unreal ungine 3.0 run on it?

Unreal engine scales to the capibilities of the hardware its running on.

Did the Cell end up being as efficient as they say... I heard that the 3 cores the 360 will use well outperform the cell, however I heard this from an xbox fanboy.
Anyway, it looks like multiple cores is going to be the next thing for PCs, I think the Xeon is the dual-processors right?