Architecture of the Playstation 2
Edit: why am I talking about the PS3 cell? This article is about the PS2. :facepalm: please ignore, too late to delete?<p>Unmentioned is perhaps the coolest fact, about how it all went down:<p>The leading lady of chip design Lisa Su (presently President &amp; CEO of AMD) parlayed her existing chip-design experience first doing Silicon-on-Insulator research at MIT, then spending some years fixing some copper interconnect emerging-problems at Texas Instruments, before first working for IBM, where she launched an Emerging Products Division at IBM (2001)[1], &amp; focusing on low power chip design among other things.<p>She became IBM&#x27;s chief point of contact with Sony in their collaboration to develop what became the PS3 (2006) Cell chip. And is largely credited with the design.<p>Afterwards She became VP of Semiconductor R&amp;D at IBM before leaving for a CTO position at Freescale in 2007 (bought by NXP in 2015, in turn almost bought by Qualcomm, but China did not sign off fast enough). She joined AMD as SVP &amp; GM of AMD in 2012, &amp; became CEO in 2014.<p>Thank you Lisa. You continue to light the way. On a personal note, it is so nice to see some absolutely badass engineers given a role in companies, allowed to lead the way. It feels like this world rarely knows what it&#x27;s doing, but you have the deep background, the in-the-trenches engineering chops, &amp; the wide swarth of experience that makes you a true &amp; genuine veteran of this field, &amp; your work &amp; developments have been ongoingly leading for the industry, each time. Thank you again Lisa.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lisa_Su#2000–2007:_IBM_Emerging_Products_division" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lisa_Su#2000–2007:_IBM...</a>