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Offline Evi

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Sony Pumps $1.1 Billion into the Cell Chip
« on: February 03, 2004, 07:30:45 PM »
"Sony has announced that during its next business year, starting in April, 120 billion yen will go towards development of its new "cell" chip. The money will be allocated between Sony\'s plants in Japan and New York and Toshiba\'s plant in Japan. As Sony\'s partner in the "cell" chip manufacturing, Toshiba has also announced that it will be providing another 42 billion yen to upgrade its own plant.

The "cell" chip is planned to use a new 65-nanometer circuitry in order to enable the chips to be smaller and more powerful. This circuitry will reside on a large 300 mm wafer. In comparison, Sony\'s PSX device, a combination PS2/DVR/DVD recorder sold in Japan, uses 90-nanometer circuitry. Sony aims at having a combined monthly output of 15,000 300 mm wafers a month and will start test production in early 2005.

The "cell" chip will be at the heart of the upcoming PS3, but Sony has more than games in mind for it. Sony is looking towards using the "cell" chip for a variety of consumer electronics products. "Through these investments in semiconductors that will be at the heart of future digital consumer electronics, we believe we can differentiate our products from the competition," Sony spokeswoman Harumi Asai said."
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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2004, 08:11:29 PM »
I\'m tempted to say it\'s just more hype (which it is) but it does sound cool.  How can they spend so much money on a single chip?  Sounds like it wll be used for HD Blu-ray decoding on the electronics side.  Maybe even to capture and encode icoming HD on the fly, though that\'s really hard to imagine.
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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2004, 11:24:35 PM »
Sound interesting, but its hype too.  If Sony wanted me to buy their PS3, it must have HD-DVD Blu Ray playback.  Like the reason with PS2, the reason why i was so anxious with owning a ps2 is because of dvd playback and psx backward compatible.  Not just a ps2 graphic power.
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« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2004, 04:24:41 AM »
15,000 300mm wafers a month..

How many chips are on a wafer?  I hope quite a few or I won\'t be seeing a PS3 till 2010.
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« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2004, 05:11:00 AM »
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15,000 300mm wafers a month..

How many chips are on a wafer?  I hope quite a few or I won\'t be seeing a PS3 till 2010.


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Sony aims at having a combined monthly output of 15,000 300 mm wafers a month and will start test production in early 2005.



It\'s  just a pre-test thingy....before they start test production. Sorta like revving the engine without going into gear. I guess. :)
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Sony Pumps $1.1 Billion into the Cell Chip
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2004, 01:12:58 PM »
So it\'s possibly hype and bullshit. Remember the hype for the monstrous "Emotion Engine". Haha, what a load of crap that was.

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I guess "Cell" is the new buzzword that\'s going to be thrown back and forth when it comes to saying how amazing the PS3 will be?
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« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2004, 01:49:19 PM »
Good ol Cervantes just as positive as usual. Anyway, its always about hype. Its a driving force to fuel the minds of casual gamers. We all know that casual gamers dont know $#!t and thus the industry has gone into the bad habit of churning out lackluster products.

Im just interested to see how the first demos look. Or even the first specs (but of course they are always blown up to insane numbers that can never be reached in real-time).
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Sony Pumps $1.1 Billion into the Cell Chip
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2004, 02:33:37 PM »
It\'s not just specs that are important, its the games too.

I prefer to let the games do the talking on how good a machine is.
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« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2004, 11:25:40 AM »
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Good ol Cervantes just as positive as usual. Anyway, its always about hype. Its a driving force to fuel the minds of casual gamers. We all know that casual gamers dont know $#!t and thus the industry has gone into the bad habit of churning out lackluster products.

Im just interested to see how the first demos look. Or even the first specs (but of course they are always blown up to insane numbers that can never be reached in real-time).


Lol, I just tell it how it is. And judging from your comment you\'re in agreement, no?
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« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2004, 11:45:52 AM »
I just hope we get to see something this E3.
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« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2004, 06:16:57 PM »
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I just hope we get to see something this E3.
Yes...start praying now...
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« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2004, 11:47:47 PM »
whatever happened to the hdd? we\'re almost at the end of the cycle as far as this generation is concerned & no hard drive. Not that i would probably get one but there was so much hype about that & now it\'s like it fell off the radar (i know took this a little off topic ;) )
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« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2004, 11:17:50 AM »
I not 100% sure but I think the HDD will be released next month with FFXI - $90
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« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2004, 11:23:05 AM »
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I not 100% sure but I think the HDD will be released next month with FFXI - $90

Together? Thats a damn good price considering the damn thing was going to sell for about 100 seperately.
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Sony Pumps $1.1 Billion into the Cell Chip
« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2004, 11:34:32 AM »
^  FF11 with for $90.  Scrams.

FF11 with hdd for $50 <-------very good deal.
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