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Dell Alienware entering the console market?

  Dell spends billions of dollars on R&D—BILLIONS. R&D expenses were $4.4 billion for Fiscal 2018 and $2.6 billion for Fiscal 2017. With a budget like that, some interesting things can be done, and Dell is doing them. One of the areas the company has been exploring is gaming, and the Alienware group has come up with a handheld device ...

Jon Peddie

  Dell spends billions of dollars on R&D—BILLIONS. R&D expenses were $4.4 billion for Fiscal 2018 and $2.6 billion for Fiscal 2017. With a budget like that, some interesting things can be done, and Dell is doing them. One of the areas the company has been exploring is gaming, and the Alienware group has come up with a handheld device that looks a little like a bigger Sony 2008 PSP. Sony PlayStation Portable circa 2008. (Source: Sony)   The PSP was a bit ahead of its time. It used two 333 MHz MIPS32 R4000 R4k-based CPUs, as the main CPU
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