Monday, October 16, 2006

Ebay cracks down on PS3 profiteers

AUCTION SITE Ebay seems to be cracking down on those flogging pre-ordered PS3 console's on its site for outrageous prices.
Already a number of PS3s have appeared on eBay for thousands of dollars. These are machines that are being pre-ordered by staff at games stores and flogged nefariously at huge mark-ups.

The antics of the store owners have been attracting much attention from PS3 fans who fear a reprise of the Xbox 360 debacle. Then, store owners took advantage of a unit shortage, took units from their shelves and flogged them on eBay. Often the managers were buying the units themselves to make a killing online.

However, it seems that eBay has decided to ban such sales. PS3 pre-orders with huge mark-ups appear to have been pulled from the auction site, upon the orders of eBay HQ. It is unlikely to stop the black-market in PS3s taking off when the console is released, but it is a start. µ

@ 9:18 AM

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The PS3's 3.2 GHz Cell processor, developed jointly by Sony, Toshiba and IBM ("SIT"), is an implementation to dynamically assign physical processor cores to do different types of work independantly. It has a PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and six accessible 3.2 GHz Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs), a seventh runs in a special mode and is dedicated to OS security, and an eighth disabled to improve production yields. The PPE, SPE's and other elements ("units") are connected via an Element Interconnect Bus which serves to connect all of the units in a ring-style bus. The PPE has a 512KB level 2 cache and one VMX vector unit. Each of the SPEs is a RISC processor with 128 128-bit SIMD GPRs and superscalar functions. Each SPE contains 256KB of non-cached memory (local storage, "LS") that is shared by program code and work data. SPEs may access more data in the main memory using DMA. The floating point performance of the whole system (CPU + GPU) is reported to be 2.18 TFLOPS[38]. PlayStation 3's Cell CPU achieves 218 GFLOPS single precision float and is reported at around 26 GFLOPS double precision. The PS3 will ship with 256 MB of Rambus XDR DRAM, clocked at CPU die speed.