nextgen

Just a small gripe, no big deal really. I was more just thinking this to myself and decided to post. But anyway, yeah, why do numerous people still refer to XB360, Wii and PS3 as Next Generation consoles? That shouldve stopped a long time ago, upon each of the consoles release. Unless theres...

I notice Intel has been using shared cache in multi-core processors, while AMD has cache banks dedicated to each processor. I can guess at the foreseeable pros & cons with each, but does anyone know what the real-world benefits and penalties are of shared vs. dedicated L2?

http://www.rpgfan.com/news/2006/1355.html Should be interesting, although still a while off, nice to see it'll be coming to 360 as well along the ps3 and pc.