CELL Test Production Starting Soon

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Friday, May 21

Sony announces important milestone for their new fab in the Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.

Sony announced today that their brand new manufacturing plant in the Nagasaki Prefecture ( Nagasaki #2 ) is indeed ready for sample production of CELL based chips using 300 mm silicon wafers ( the diameter of the wafer measures 300 mm ): low yelds, mostly needed to test the new 65 nm manufacturing process co-developed with Toshiba and to debug the design of these early CELL based processors. This follows a past announcement regarding their Semiconductors investment strategy: Sony announces investment in Semiconductors

Sony also announced that the first CELL chips should come from IBM\'s East Fishkill fab on which Sony has invested almost $318 Million for new 65 nm lines and equipment for 300 mm silicon wafers as announced in this statement: Sony announces Semiconductor investment

The Nagasaki #2 announcement comes a few months after the news that Toshiba has completed construction of their new fab in the Oita Prefecture ( Oita #2 ), which is being co-financed by Sony Computer Entertainment ( SCE ):  Toshiba announces completion of Oita #2. This new fab (Oita #2) will also have 65 nm equipment and will use 300 mm silicon wafers and will host production of several LSI circuits including CELL based chips.

Sounds like it should be ready on time.

Have they reach desired performance from the chip btw?I remember that they wanted to achive certain performance but the state of the chip back then was still a bit far from achieving that performance.

I hope they are up to the level they wanted to be at. I heard from an interview that the ps2 is probably going to be released around 2006. I dont know if then meant fall 2005 or what but 2006 was just the number thrown out there.

If PS2 is 2006 and XBOX2 in 2005 then Sony should better offer something that is indeed very very much powerfull.

yay sony!  

I can\'t wait until the next gen consoles start waging war!

ummm...the ps2 came out in 2000 you silly bastards.

Originally posted by theomen
ummm...the ps2 came out in 2000 you silly bastards.

what that was about i dont know but FYI: PS2 came out in 1999

Originally posted by Lord Nicon
what that was about i dont know...

You wrote PS2 in your post instead of PS3.

Originally posted by Lord Nicon
I heard from an interview that the ps2 is probably going to be released around 2006.

grassy-ass my friend.

always in the habit of typing ps2. I dont even look at what i write sometimes.

It came out in 2000, I had just graduated HS and it came out the fall after I graduated...  did I somehow get lost in a rip in the space time continuam for a year or something?

Originally posted by theomen
It came out in 2000, I had just graduated HS and it came out the fall after I graduated...  did I somehow get lost in a rip in the space time continuam for a year or something?

No. It just seemed more like 99 since i believed that it was supposed to come out fall of 99 for japan. It was actually something like march of 00.