CELL DIE

[j^aws]

That other GPU thread has a very sensitive title, so I'll post here instead. Didn't see this posted before.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=6025
Jen-Hsun Huang says how final silicon is expected by end of '05, plus the usual blah blah blah that we know. But the wording is original

"This next generation architecture took several hundred people several years to build, but this specific implementation of that architecture should take about 50 engineers. It's something we're running full throttle on," he added.

So yes, we have official info that it is a derivative of Nvidia's next-gen tech. However...

Huang also spoke of the PS3 chip's relationship with past PC-based architecture, or the lack thereof. "It's nothing to do with Windows, it doesn't use any of the Windows features, and it's not about driving Windows. It's not about the PC at all," he said of the GPU's background.

So the differing camps arguing in that other thread - all of you were right! Both camps! WOW! Have a merry christmas!

Ermm...that was already posted in that silly thread from hell...and subsequent silly comments made thereof!

 

[passerby]

Well...

 

[j^aws]

Well...

Well, there have been around 100 pages of posts this month on the PS3...and technically, we still know JACK!

 

[loekf2]

Here's an EE+GS die on 90nm,

Yikes.... talking about a quick and dirty layout job ;-)

Someone just pasted the EE and the GS layouts next to each other.

In the semiconductors' industry we tend to like nice and rectangular layouts (usually fits better in a package), though in this case it goes into a BGA anyways so who gives a sh..

 

[version]

"Image rendering process for displaying three-dimensional image information on a two-dimensional screen "
SONY PATENT

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...ony+AND+processor&RS=(sony+AND+processor)

 

[SiBoy]

Yikes.... talking about a quick and dirty layout job ;-)

Someone just pasted the EE and the GS layouts next to each other.

It's smart. You want to re-floorplan that thing?