Sure, but they used a PowerPC core with specialized SIMD processors that they then extensively documented:
https://arcb.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/cluster/ps3/SDK3.0/docs/a...
If they hadn't done the latter, it would probably have taken a lot longer to reverse engineer. It also would have made it near impossible for developers to code effectively for it, however.
Sure, but they used a PowerPC core with specialized SIMD processors that they then extensively documented:
https://arcb.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/cluster/ps3/SDK3.0/docs/a...
If they hadn't done the latter, it would probably have taken a lot longer to reverse engineer. It also would have made it near impossible for developers to code effectively for it, however.