It is interesting that IBM dominated this generation of consoles, and was vanquished in the next.

The high failure rates of the Xbox 360 did not help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems

Wow... A speculative branch prediction path actually get's preemptively executed despite the branch outcome? No matter if the execution has side-affects??? That's quite amazing. Are modern CPUs doing speculative execution like this and just put extra safeguards around affects or do they just prefetch / decode instructions now-a-days?

This article is from 2018.

Previously:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16094925

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27480448

Would need "(2018)" in the title.

unrelated, but recently XBox One was hacked for the first time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTFn4UZsA5U

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