Sony's Logic LSI Demands for Playstation; ITPC

[xbdestroya]

Found this courtesey of the Net's most useful bridge to Japanese tech reporting (One).

These slides are of Kutaragi's recent speech and presentation at the International Trade Partners Conference. Basically shows how Sony/Playstation's demand for modern silicon technoques/production/capacoty is set to explode with PS3.

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20051101/110328/sony1.jpg

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20051101/110328/sony2.jpg

[O.D.S]

Yep good find xbd, If This turns out to be true it will deffinatly lower the price of PS3's "supposed" highly priced cell chip.

mmm memory demands for PS3? am i missing something here?
Has Sony announced what storage the PS3 will use (type, size ect.)? Because this 'high' demand could be because the size of the memmory card(?) will remain small?

[xbdestroya]

Well, none of this indicates cheap components per se - what it's indicating is that the PS3 reqires much more in the way of material silicon investment than do the PS2 and the PSP. Sure production scales will be fairly massive, but just imagine that each individual PS3 soaks up more of 'bar space' than do the equivelent PS2's and PSP's. Not sure if that made sense or not. http://community.the-underdogs.org/smiley/happy/smile2.gif

[O.D.S]

Oh wait a minute...my mistake :nervous:

i read the graphs wrong. You cleared it up real nice. Thanks http://forums.e-mpire.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

[NeoPlayStation]

Would Sony wait until 2006 for 65nm process?

[xbdestroya]

Would Sony wait until 2006 for 65nm process?

Wait to launch the console? Nah - they'll just go ahead on 90nm I'm sure, Kutaragi's already said as much anyway. It'd be a nice surprise though, in that it might be cooler, quieter, and clocked higher than the 90nm equivelents. But they've indicated they want to skip all the drama this time around that can come with a new process move, as happened to them for PS2. I'm sure they'll switch to 65nm mid/late 2006 if they can, but the launch seems slated for 90nm.

[Infernal]

Wait... If the red bar is the PS3, then that means the last 2 bars are the only PS3 bars, and those 2 bars represent 65nm according to the slides...

[xbdestroya]

Nah that shows 65nm coming on sometime during the middle of 2006, not an indication that that entire red bar is composed of 65nm production.

[venomv]

mmm memory demands for PS3? am i missing something here? Has Sony announced what storage the PS3 will use (type, size ect.)? Because this 'high' demand could be because the size of the memmory card(?) will remain small?

Didn't they say they were gonna scrap the memery card idea and just let people use currently excisting memery sticks and such with the 3 or whatever memery readers on it?

[O.D.S]

well thats what im asking.

Maybe they did say it but it slipped my mind. That would be better than just memory card, for sure.

[xbdestroya]

Yeah I think they're done with the proprietary memory cards.