It's July 24, 2003 and all is well with Cell so far...

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Panajev2001a

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July 24 Sony Q1 FY 2003 Earnings Announcement (PlayStation 3 in 2005)

Takao Yuhara, Senior Vice President and Group CFO, Sony Corporation

http://makeashorterlink.com/?B39612395

Requires Real Player... yes the usual translator is back, but this time she seems doing a bit of a better job.

I liked the 10th question which is relevant to their semi-conductors development.

Cell is still scheduled for 2005, using 65 nm technology, but Sony, at them current point in time, cannot exclude Cell as being available in 2004.

When Takao Yuhara said that Cell's development is going smoothly and according to schedule for a 2005 timeframe he meant that products using 65 nm Cell chips would be available in 2005.

Could this be a big hint for PlayStation 3's launch ?

:)

The Newscast from SCE land will come back when more updates are going to be available :)
 
If PS3 launches in 2005, I seriously wonder what the rasterizer will be like, the features it will have and architecture as well as the entire GPU.

Any more rumblings on Nvidia making some sort of contribution?
 
I seriously wonder what the rasterizer will be like, the features it will have and architecture as well as the entire GPU.
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Most likely something not unlike Visualizer in the patent, hell they have this Cell architecture.. why not base GS3 off it?

It will be a raw numbers monster not unlike GS, and it's features I'm sure won't be lacking this time.

I am certain ps3 will have pixel shading support as Sony is including it in PSP.
 
Hopefully both CPU and GPU will be flexible and fast enough to allow more effects to be achieved without the need of having them implemented in silicon ( fundamental basic things like AA, Texture Filtering, etc... would still be handled in Hardware [in silicon as they say] though ).
 
Well what I heard was 3 min 35 sec long, and no mention of semiconductors. maybe i listened to the wrong one. or perhaps i completely missed it. gonna listen again more carefully :)

edit:
oh wait, nevermind, im listening to the other questions now, i see i can put in a different number into my browser and listen to other parts.... this might take awhile to absorb it all. the translator is doing a pretty good job but still requires some concentraition :)
 
I hope Sony includes dedicated AC3/DTS encoding hardware (like the Xbox) rather than to leave it up to developers to implement it in software. I think most Xbox w/DD5.1 owners will testify that they can never go back.
 
It is the 12th question, I changed the link.

I apologize for the mistake :(

Mega, they already discolsed it, hence the 98% nosedive last Quarter as far as operative proftis go.

In the next 3 years they are investing $8 billions in semiconductors R&D and consolidation and $4 billions ( out of the $8 billions total ) will go to Cell R&D ( including the new Oita #2 and Nagasaki #2 plants ).
 
Right, sorry, didnt mean to say they havent disclosed anything. just that one particular question about quarter to quarter R&D, the translator said say didnt want to disclose.

8 billion is a crap-load to spend on semi conductors. i remember that figure from a few months ago.
 
ahh now I got the part you originally mentioned Pana



"enormous investment in semiconductors....especially in Sony Computer Entertainment what is the present stage of development?"


"well"

(finantial stuff)



"it has to be there in two years...development is proceeding accordingly..."

there is no delay......development is working smoothly.. Cell development"

(in other words, all your base belong to us!)


"what is the timing when new Cell is put on products?"

" well the completion of the facility as i mentioned in two years and a half time, that means in 05 devices will become avalible..."

(in other words, we are coming with PS3 as planned!)
 
Megadrive1988 said:
THIS http://www.so-net.ne.jp/sonyir/20030724/E/qa08/irview.html
is the one that has yeilded the most relavent info of the segments I've listened to so far.
mentioned is R&D, and CELL, being developed with IBM and Toshiba. they did not want to disclose how much they spent / are spending on R&D quarter to quarter.
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And they say "developing Cell" in regards to their Game R&D :)

Of course Cell is not only for SCE and PlayStation 3, but Sony already said that many times before.
 
here's an interesting part:

"well as for the Game R&D, we are developing the CELL, and that's quite large. I.B.M., Toshiba together with them, we are jointly developing that. And, for Sony independantly, we are doing our own development based open the agreements...."


I could be wrong, but to me, that sounds like Sony is not only working with IBM and Toshiba on the CELL in general, but also putting together their own, PS3-specific version of CELL. :)
 
Megadrive1988 said:
here's an interesting part:

"well as for the Game R&D, we are developing the CELL, and that's quite large. I.B.M., Toshiba together with them, we are jointly developing that. And, for Sony independantly, we are doing our own development based open the agreements...."


I could be wrong, but to me, that sounds like Sony is not only working with IBM and Toshiba on the CELL in general, but also putting together their own, PS3-specific version of CELL. :)
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More than that they meant incarnations of the Cell architecture targeted specifically to Sony ( other than SCE ) products like TVs, Stereos, portable PCs, Workstations ( together with SCE ), etc...
 
Panajev2001a said:
*Panajev2001a can't wait for Vince to read the good news as well :)
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It's good, but did you ever doubt it? It's what many here have been saying for a long time, although the Inquirer almost had me convinced that Cell was for PlayStation4. :rolleyes:
 
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