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		extraduder_ire 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sometimes CPU cores are odd The ps3 had 7. Also for yield reasons.

quadruple 3 months 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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