PS3 As Early As Next Year??? Check Out These Specs!!!

The degree to which Sony\'s PlayStation 3 will out-perform its predecessor became clearer yesterday when the developer of the console\'s graphics chip mapped out its internals.

Speaking at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, held this week in San Francisco, the designer of the Graphics Synthesiser (GS), Simplex Solutions, unveiled a .18 micron chip almost twice the physical size of the .25 micron PlayStation 2 version (21.3mm x 21.7mm, compared to just 16.8mm x 16.88mm).

The PlayStation 3 GS will feature 256Mb of on-die DRAM. The current implementation has just 32Mb of embedded memory. \'GS 3\' will be capable of handling 75 million polygons per second with a fill rate of 1.2-2.6 billion pixels per second. Its 2Kb internal bus provides a bandwidth of 48GBps.

According to EE Times, most regular DRAM makers are waiting for .15 micron and smaller process technologies before releasing 256Mb chips. In that respect, Sony and Simplex Solutions\' used of 256Mb embedded DRAM is well ahead of the curve.

Presenting the chip, Simplex Solutions VP Aurangzeb Khan said that yields of the GS 3 (our name, not his) were meeting Sony\'s expectations. That suggests it may be not too far off full-scale shipment. The PlayStation 3 isn\'t expected until next year at the earliest, though with Xbox due to ship late 2001, Sony may be keen to hasten the release of the follow-up to the PlayStation 2, whether it\'s a full revamp of the console or simply an upgrade.

Khan would not say whether the GS 3 would be used in a successor to the PlayStation 2. The second version of the PlayStation 2\'s central processor, the Emotion Engine, is due to appear next year, according to Sony\'s roadmap.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/16752.html

FORGET ABOUT PS2, XBOX AND GAMECUBE...I\'M GETTING ME A PS3!!! WOW!!!  :rolleyes:

What? That\'s unbelievable...

PS2 would be quite useless if that\'d be true, so I doubt it. Why release PS2 if PS3 is so close at hand, and so much more powerful?

why havent all the game-companies left this too early born child, PS2, to meet its death, PS3?

I mean... that\'s interesting, but fights against the forms of logic.

This thread for the GA forum will explain everything

Who is stupid enough to believe a PS3 in 2002?Do you know how long it takes to build and develop a console?Its atleast 4 years of work and the PS3 probably didn\'t start physical development untill like last year after the PS2 launched in Japan.

Rev you total A hole !

thats the new chip post , that you have just taken from this site and added it top paragarph to it.

thats it i have have enough of your crap.

ADMINS take this troll away for a damn good kicking , no use banning him because this roach will only find his way back in some how.

p.s.
heres what to do after your banned !

why dont you call yourself ReverndA_hole the next time, so we know its you .

Damn, ooseven!! I expected you to be the first to respond to my thread!  You need to be quicker next time, ole chap!  I\'m following ddaryl\'s advice and I\'m still getting bashed...must the the "Xbox" suffix at the end of my name...OOPS! I wasn\'t supposed to say "Xbox"!

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Originally posted by ReverendXbox
Damn, ooseven!! I expected you to be the first to respond to my thread!  You need to be quicker next time, ole chap!  I\'m following ddaryl\'s advice and I\'m still getting bashed...must the the "Xbox" suffix at the end of my name...OOPS! I wasn\'t supposed to say "Xbox"!

no it\'s becuase your a Troll and fanboy thats why i bash you !

you could be a PS2 fanboy i would still do it !.

What a loser everytime he opens his mouth crap comes out

i don´t know what is happening in videogames world... ¿?¿?¿? PS3 for the next year???

if Sony were to release the PS3 next year they would fail so bad it\'s not even funny, all those people who went out and bought a PS2 to have the best now find out that a bigger better one is coming out only a year later, believe you me, Sony is not that stupid, and there is no way PS3 is coming out any sonner then 3 years from this day

Another thread another fanboys trying rise up some false accusations about the PS2\'s demise or something around that nature - give me a break it has been a long day.

he\'s kind of..........funny,
hmm, let\'s just hope for him he didn\'t really believe that one himself,
the weird people you meet on the internet, geez.

Why did you try and fool us?

It was not funny at all, plus I think the PS3 will be more powerful none the less...  Give it at least another year or so for the news to start spewing in...

the PS2 and GC are way ahead of the pathetic xflop.....only 33million transistors in the xbox gpu? lol....sony beats that with 47million and nintendo kills it with 52million...8 layer effects in one pass on gc..only 4 on xbox....

look at the fillrate of the xbox...it\'s atleast 2 years behind...while ps2 was ahead at the time it was done..

why on earth do people call the xbox the "new" thing? or "new technology"?....lol

geeze


Like Sony even needs to bring out PS3, the PS2 has a ton of untapped life left in it


I can\'t believe the amount of people who takes a Sony R+D announcement out of context. Sony was R+D\'ing the PS2 soon after the PSX and they announced it at about the same time in the PSX\'s life,

well at lest this is Sony PS news
 (even though its your stereo typical web based journalism fabrication)