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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => PS3 Discussion => Topic started by: unknown on May 09, 2001, 09:04:03 AM
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in this latest issue of PSM magazone, they talk about the PS3\'s chip, now i dont know ow much you guys know but this opened a whole new look on it, and made me drop my jaw, here is the story, this story was pretty long so i kinda narrowed it down and got to the point, you HAVE to read it:
Sony Corp, Toshiba (manufacturer of the PS2\'s emotion engine and graphics synthesiser), and IBM have teamed up to design and build a processor architecture optimized for unprecedented multimedia processing power. Early estimates of the architechture for these processors, code named "Cell" predict as much as 200 to 1000 times the power of PS2 :D. The 3 company\'s will invest more than $400 million in Cell over the next five years, looking to launch several types of consumer poducts using the chips (among them PS3) begining in 2004.
now this the part that got me, listen to this:
Interestingly, the "Cell" moniker reflects the theory of the chips working within the lrger broad band network. Ken Kuturagi, CEO and president of SCE, describes the processors comprising and "organic" whole, or a massively parallel computer like IBM\'s "Deep Blue". Justr as thousands of biological cells organically connect to each other to form a complete physical body, cell based electronic products and systems, being connected with each other with optical fibers, will create truly broadband networks world wide".
now thats deep.. this would be the specs right here
While the chips were made initially witch .18 micron technology, and more recently with .13 microns, Cell will be designed at .1 microns, setting new standards for size and and performance (courtesy of IBM). in and of itself each cell should be extremly powerful, but the ramifications of Cells witchin a larger network are staggering. Kututagi says, "one Cell processor will have say, 1-teraflops performance; 1,000 Cells make 1-petraflops performance. Then1,000 of these [groups of] 1,000 Cells can combine". while the theory of all this techincal jibber jabber conjures imaginations of power beyond out wildest dreams blah blah blah...
well that was all i wanted to share with you, imagine that much power will be in our PS3.... "Cell" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHA
im a happy man
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that wouldbe crazy, but i doubt that they are actually working on the chip right now... they are just getting ideas for the next gen console...
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Originally posted by unknown
im a happy man
Why are you happy? Its not like you will be making any money off of this.
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The fact that technology evolves so fast, makes it very hard to know what will come in the future.
I don´t think about PS3 yet. I know they are doing theory on the technology, but we can´t even imagine whats around the corner.
Just imagine 200 times more powerful than the PS2!
Scary stuff.
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Sounds nice!
But I dont really care about PS3 and "cell" now.
I just got my PS2 and Im happy with it.
I wont start thinking about PS3 and "cell" for atleast 3-5 years.
Thanks anyways unknown!
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Chips working with the BB network? Sounds like forced network connections so they can monitor you, force advertisements, keep track of what your playing, if your playing with warez, etc.... sorry, count me out. I won\'t allow my privacy to be invaded for games....
Of course, I might be overreacting....
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That\'s awesome news!! PS3 "CELL", this will be big time gaming. I want to see what type of graphics it will have, toy story maybe. It\'s the X-box killer!! :D
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Originally posted by pstwo
That\'s awesome news!! PS3 "CELL", this will be big time gaming. I want to see what type of graphics it will have, toy story mabe. It\'s the X-box killer!! :D
the PS2 is, not the PS3...
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Originally posted by Bossieman
the PS2 is, not the PS3...
Your both insane.
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Originally posted by Gohan
Why are you happy? Its not like you will be making any money off of this.
... your seriouse....
im happy bacuase i know 5 years from now i WILL be playing what they just said
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Holy Sh1t. :eek:
Thanks unknown.
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Originally posted by Falcon4
that wouldbe crazy, but i doubt that they are actually working on the chip right now... they are just getting ideas for the next gen console...
Sony, Toshiba, and IBM have entered into a 4 or so year 400 millon dollar agreement to produce this chip.
It will take pretty much that long to make such a chip so thinking about it wouldn\'t do them any good.
The reason Toshiba and IBM are involves is for utilization of each others technology, but more importantly is the mainstreaming of this new technology. With IBM, Toshiba, and Sony all putting these chips into major appliances and computers etc... It will be alot easier for the mainstream to recognize the technology and from there it can take root and grow.
The idea with these chips go way beyond the Playstation 3
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well i think this is getting way ahead of schedule and i hope that it does work out - just have to wait and see
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Originally posted by Sublimesjg
well i think this is getting way ahead of schedule and i hope that it does work out - just have to wait and see
they started talking about the ps2 chip a couple years early and look how close they cut it getting it out, i think its a good idea to not procrastinate
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Originally posted by pstwo
That\'s awesome news!! PS3 "CELL", this will be big time gaming. I want to see what type of graphics it will have, toy story maybe. It\'s the X-box killer!! :D
Huh? It is the PS3 for christ sake, it will be a full generation ahead. I would hope it could out perform the Xbox. But, then if MS releases a Xbox2, I guess we will have to wait for a PS4 to call it the Xbox 2 killer? This makes no sense to me. As for the Toy story graphics comment, didn\'t Sony promise that with the PS2? ;)
Why are you people worried about games 5 years in the future? And why are you worrying if it will "kill the xbox"? It is 4-5 years away!
On another note; anyone who has been gaming for awhile should know that companies start working on the next system as soon as they release the current one. It is R&D. Sony started work on the PS2 when the Psone was released. And to be extreme about the point, the same will happen when the PS3 *is* released. Work on the "PS4" will start. This gives companies ample time to R&D (research and development), and stay ahead.
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I wonder what it will look like.
it makes me giddy :bounce:
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Originally posted by unknown
... your seriouse....
im happy bacuase i know 5 years from now i WILL be playing what they just said
Yes I am "seriouse". The PS2 has been out in the US for less than 7 months and your giddy about some plans for a chip 4, 5, or even 6 years down the line? In that case I am jubilant because I hear that some company is working on a rocket pack. Woo Hoo!! No more sharing of rockets for me!!! This rocket pack will be the true hanglider killer. :rolleyes:
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i really really dont care...as long as Square keep putting out top notch storylines...the power of the machine doesnt matter
then again...more power...the more possibilities they have for interaction etc.
bah, who cares
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Originally posted by pstwo
That\'s awesome news!! PS3 "CELL", this will be big time gaming. I want to see what type of graphics it will have, toy story maybe. It\'s the X-box killer!! :D
I\'m sure you\'re joking :)...X-Box uses 20 years-old technology and PS2 with 1 year and half of disadvantage can match the MS Console...PS2 will be the X-Box killer :D...and PS3 will be The "X-Box2" killer :D:D
...I\'m joking People...
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Originally posted by EThugg
Your both insane.
your starting to be a X-BOX fanboy
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Originally posted by Bozco
your starting to be a X-BOX fanboy
Um, he\'s always been an XBox fanboy.
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Originally posted by Solid Snake 88
Um, he\'s always been an XBox fanboy.
naw he\'s just a moron
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Originally posted by Gohan
Yes I am "seriouse". The PS2 has been out in the US for less than 7 months and your giddy about some plans for a chip 4, 5, or even 6 years down the line? In that case I am jubilant because I hear that some company is working on a rocket pack. Woo Hoo!! No more sharing of rockets for me!!! This rocket pack will be the true hanglider killer. :rolleyes:
please don\'t try to rain on my parade cause i know it\'s gonna be 5 years down the line, geez what kind of fool do you take me for, PS2 is NOW, PS3 is 5 YEARS from now and i acknowledge that, just because u don\'t think its a big deal, doesn\'t mean that other people think like you, I just posted this because it was in PSM and i thought it was news worth posting, so posted for everyone THAT CARED about this.
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Originally posted by Solid Snake 88
Um, he\'s always been an XBox fanboy.
naw he\'s just a moron
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Originally posted by ddaryl
naw he\'s just a moron
Why am I a moron... or fanboy, because I called them insane for making inane comparisons between XB, and the chipset supposedly for PS3, a full generation ahead of XB or PS2? It was stupid, they were insane, and I\'m none of the above.
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I am not quite sure why ANY of you are trying to compare the PS3 chip--which we know so little about to the Xbox system. Is this a fair comparison? I mean, it will be a full generation ahead of the Xbox, not to mention, once again, we know extremely little about the chip.
Yes, it will be more powerful then the Xbox.
Yes, it will sell tons.
Now can we please go back to our normal PS2 lives and forget about the PS3 stuff?
;)
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Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
I am not quite sure why ANY of you are trying to compare the PS3 chip--which we know so little about to the Xbox system. Is this a fair comparison? I mean, it will be a full generation ahead of the Xbox, not to mention, once again, we know extremely little about the chip.
Yes, it will be more powerful then the Xbox.
Yes, it will sell tons.
Now can we please go back to our normal PS2 lives and forget about the PS3 stuff?
;)
like i said before, i posted htis for people that were interested in it, i have never spoken of PS3 stuff until this thread, im happy to know what we will be seing the future, but the key words there are "in the FUTURE"
right now im happy with what i have :)
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I can understand posting news on the PS3 and looking foward to the future, but this has gotten out of hand. I\'ve seen a few times now, people calling the PS3 a "xbox killer" and then arguin\' about how powerful it will be or something.
That is just screwed up.
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it was not a good idea because many newbies think that it will come very soon, and hook up to the ps2 or somthing... they get wrong impressions, so they argue..
but remember, they arent actually making the "cell" they are just thinking about it.
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I wouldn\'t take anything Sony says about the next console as fact. Remember when they said the PS2 is so advanced that they wouldn\'t have to release another console for 10 years? George Lucas was saying how the PS2 was more powerful than the workstations used to make Phantom Menace, all bs!