Sephiroth_VII
12-23-2004, 08:19 PM
Here is an article on the PS3.
For the article on the PSP, go to the PSP boards.
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Sony confirm PS3 will be ten times more powerful than PS2 and cause online networks 'to explode'. What's going on?
S3 will launch in 2006, powered by the long rumoured Cell processor technology that offers ten times the performance of PS2.The announcement was made at a recent press conference about Cell chip technology, with Sony's Chief Operating Officer Ken Kuturagi predicting that the chip - and hence PS3 - will "spark an online revolution. In the future, all forms of digital content will be converged and fused on to the broadband network, and will start to explode", he mused. In real words, that means PS3 will be able to connect via broadband to other consoles across the world - or even other Cell chip equipped electrical devices- and create one pulsing hive-mind of processing power. Well, that's the theory.
At the heart of this electronic revolution will be the Cell chip - an ultra powerful processor, or the 'brains' of PS3, produced in conjunction with Toshiba and IBM.We'll spare you the rea//ydetailed technical waffle, but - look away now technophobes-the Cell chip is a 64-bit
processor core from IB/vYs Power family. The chip can be used as part of a larger parallel processing environment, and will be able to run multiple operating-and realtime resource management-systems at once. Basically, PS3 will be able to 'talk' and share power with other Cell equipped devices, likeyour HDTV, DVD playeror -this isonlytheoretical-fridgefreezer. Why? God knows - but we're sure it'll make graphics look lovely. Or mean you can order a pint of milk while chatting to your Japanese buddies during an online gang war in CTA4.
Theonlyfigure we (sort of) understand is that the Cell chip will be capable of 16 trillion floating point calculations per second - over ten times existing processor technology. That's big. IBM confirmed that the chip would begin production in the second half of 2005, neatly coinciding with Sony's announcement that they would 'commercialise'Cell-based products in 2006 - ie. turn them into PS3. Expect further Cell chip details at February 2OO5's International Solid State Circuits
Conference - it's a cmckerof an event, folks-and for PS3 to beannounced at the end of 01 2005, the end of Sony's financial year.The PS3 will make its public debut at E3 2005 in May, with development kits shipped from October. A key stumbling block may be PS3's mooted adoption of the Blu-Ray storage system (a high capacity storage device that replaces DVDs).Why? Major Hollywood film studios Universal Pictures and New Line Cinema åre backing a (technically inferior but easier to use/ control) rival storage system called HD-DVD. Sony may end up in the middleof a potentially ruinous format war (like Betamax and VHS in the early '8os), and find PS3 unableto play the latest Hollywood films.
IBM will start produdng ihe Cell processor in early 2005 and a working version of PS3 will be shown off next May, Afull launch ofthe console is not expected until 2006, however, if Sony can come to an agreement with the movie studios, PS3 wili be multimedies evofved. The future's bright, the future's exploding.
There is proplem with the text, i know that.
I use a program to convert the scan, and it's not that good :(
For the article on the PSP, go to the PSP boards.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/Sephiroth_VII/ps3i.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/Sephiroth_VII/ps3ii.jpg
text version:
Sony confirm PS3 will be ten times more powerful than PS2 and cause online networks 'to explode'. What's going on?
S3 will launch in 2006, powered by the long rumoured Cell processor technology that offers ten times the performance of PS2.The announcement was made at a recent press conference about Cell chip technology, with Sony's Chief Operating Officer Ken Kuturagi predicting that the chip - and hence PS3 - will "spark an online revolution. In the future, all forms of digital content will be converged and fused on to the broadband network, and will start to explode", he mused. In real words, that means PS3 will be able to connect via broadband to other consoles across the world - or even other Cell chip equipped electrical devices- and create one pulsing hive-mind of processing power. Well, that's the theory.
At the heart of this electronic revolution will be the Cell chip - an ultra powerful processor, or the 'brains' of PS3, produced in conjunction with Toshiba and IBM.We'll spare you the rea//ydetailed technical waffle, but - look away now technophobes-the Cell chip is a 64-bit
processor core from IB/vYs Power family. The chip can be used as part of a larger parallel processing environment, and will be able to run multiple operating-and realtime resource management-systems at once. Basically, PS3 will be able to 'talk' and share power with other Cell equipped devices, likeyour HDTV, DVD playeror -this isonlytheoretical-fridgefreezer. Why? God knows - but we're sure it'll make graphics look lovely. Or mean you can order a pint of milk while chatting to your Japanese buddies during an online gang war in CTA4.
Theonlyfigure we (sort of) understand is that the Cell chip will be capable of 16 trillion floating point calculations per second - over ten times existing processor technology. That's big. IBM confirmed that the chip would begin production in the second half of 2005, neatly coinciding with Sony's announcement that they would 'commercialise'Cell-based products in 2006 - ie. turn them into PS3. Expect further Cell chip details at February 2OO5's International Solid State Circuits
Conference - it's a cmckerof an event, folks-and for PS3 to beannounced at the end of 01 2005, the end of Sony's financial year.The PS3 will make its public debut at E3 2005 in May, with development kits shipped from October. A key stumbling block may be PS3's mooted adoption of the Blu-Ray storage system (a high capacity storage device that replaces DVDs).Why? Major Hollywood film studios Universal Pictures and New Line Cinema åre backing a (technically inferior but easier to use/ control) rival storage system called HD-DVD. Sony may end up in the middleof a potentially ruinous format war (like Betamax and VHS in the early '8os), and find PS3 unableto play the latest Hollywood films.
IBM will start produdng ihe Cell processor in early 2005 and a working version of PS3 will be shown off next May, Afull launch ofthe console is not expected until 2006, however, if Sony can come to an agreement with the movie studios, PS3 wili be multimedies evofved. The future's bright, the future's exploding.
There is proplem with the text, i know that.
I use a program to convert the scan, and it's not that good :(