新游戏机竞赛
The Race For a New Game Machine
David Shippy · 初版 2010 年
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“一部节奏明快的揭秘之作……堪称我们这个年轻世纪中最伟大的商业传奇之一。”——Steve Cherry，《IEEE Spectrum Magazine》。Xbox 360 和 PlayStation 3 游戏主机改变了家庭娱乐的面貌。然而鲜有人知晓这些主机内部的惊人故事——David Shippy 与他在 Sony/Toshiba/IBM Design Center (STI) 的工程师团队如何锻造出处于核心的微小奇迹：一款彻底改变个人计算范式的革命性微处理器芯片。押注在其中的，是一群默默奉献、不知疲倦的远见卓识者的生计乃至神智；交战的双方则是科技巨头 Microsoft 和 Sony
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David Shippy 写的《新游戏机大战：打造 Xbox 与 Playstation 3 的芯片》（The Race For A New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the XBox and the Playstation 3）里面，提到了一些关于苹果以及他们与 IBM、Cell 处理器之间关系的八卦。书挺有意思的，还给出了一些原因……
The book "The Race For A New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the XBox and the Playstation 3" by David Shippy has some commentary on Apple with their relationship with IBM and the Cell. It's an interesting book and gives some reasons…
……微软的 Xbox 360，最终微软用着索尼出资参与研发的芯片组在上市时间上干翻了索尼……[0] 关于这事有一本很棒的书，是两位 IBM 芯片架构师 David Shippy 和 Mickie Phipps 写的《新游戏机大战》（The Race for a New Game Machine）[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/jan/01/sony...
…Microsoft for Xbox 360, and Microsoft ultimately beating Sony in market-launch with a chipset Sony partially financed...[0] There's a nice book about it from two of the IBM Chip-Designers called "The Race for a New Game Machine" by David Shippy and Mickie Phipps [0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/jan/01/sony...
《新游戏机大战》（The Race for a New Game Machine）[1] 是一本讲述 Cell 和 Xenon[2] 处理器研发内幕的佳作。放弃乱序执行（out-of-order）看起来真是个奇烂无比的决定，而 IBM 的内部内斗如果属实的话，那可真叫一个……
"The Race for a New Game Machine"[1] is a pretty good read on the development of the Cell and Xenon[2] processors. Giving up the out-of-order seems like a really bad decision and the internal fighting at IBM, if accurate, is really…
……项目以及他后来去的其他地方。还有 Tracy Kidder 的《新机器的灵魂》（The Soul of a New Machine），讲的是 Data General Nova 背后的工程研发历程。这本可是真拿过普利策奖的。我也挺喜欢《新游戏机大战》，但不如上面几本那么对味。
…project and other places he ended up. And Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine, about the engineering effort behind the Data General Nova. This one literally has a Pulitzer. I also enjoyed The Race for a New Game Machine, but not as much as the above books.
《睡鼠说什么》（What the Dormouse Said）是神作，强烈推荐。相对小众得多的是《新游戏机大战》（Race for a New Game Machine），重点讲了负责研发驱动 Xbox 360 和 PS3 芯片的 IBM 设计团队。
"What the Dormouse Said" is a classic, highly recommended. Much more niche is "Race for a New Game Machine," highlighting the IBM design team responsible for the chips powering the Xbox 360 and PS3.
据我所知，Xenon 和 Cell PPE 几乎是同时流片（taped out）的，所以它并不是从另一个 Cell 衍生出来的核心。《新游戏机大战》这本书把时间线梳理得相当清晰。
I know that the Xenon was being simultaneously taped out with the Cell PPE, so it doesn't derive from another cell derived core. The book "The Race for a New Game Machine" goes over the timing pretty well.