New PS3 board shown at CES

The other two chips are soldered on the backside.

 

No, 2 are on the other side of the board.

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XDR has 16 bit interface...

EDIT: Too late

 

Ow!

 

Good job Sony, keep driving that price down and efficieny up!

 

The question is what people consider "Slim" form factor.
The original "Fat"-PS2 is less then half the size of 360/PS3 to begin with, and it Includes a 3.5" HDD Bay which is bigger then 360&PS3 HDDs combined.
Or looking at it another way, PS2 Slim with a 2.5"drive bolted on would not even be 1/3rd the size of PS2 "Fat". Hell the latest Slim model with integrated PS could house at least a 1.8" HDD if you moved the PS back out.

As long as they can get the rest of the hw to fit in a smaller case without overheating(which has yet to be proven viable), HDD could always be attached with minimum change to form factor as some sort of 'external' slot like 360 does now.

 

I've read that CELL is designed for easely replacing SPE with any other accelearator like GPU. I'm sure their are ready with it and only waiting for process shrink for both CELL and RSX to 32nm.

 

Where are these stats from?

 

Yes, I think there's good scope for an interrim shrink from Massive to Normal size. If the heatsink can be reduced that much, that was the bulk of the volume in the PS3 making for a lot of empty space. But then what would the costs of the console shrink be with a new design and new production lines? That historically there's only ever been one shrink per platform points to a threshold level that discourages too much variation.

 

I would be interested to find these. I can just find the years each were released, and I knew PS2 got the slim much earlier than PS1 did (3 years compared to 6 years) - but didn't think the numbers were so equal!

 

sony business data on sony official website

http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/index_e.html

no it's 4 years and 7 months compared to 5 years and 8 months

 

PS3 Slim is far from now. Unless Cell and RSX are integrated in one chip like EEGS on PS2.

Maybe some little surprise for Slim model use 512MB XDR rather than 256MB XDR.
Like PSP slim applied.

 

Theres no a point to doing this, the only thing it would achieve is raising the production cost of the PS3.

 

Lets see to proof.

 

Yes. The only point would be if the system would be relaunched so that Linux gets RSX enabled or if it is useful somehow for the browser or media features (which is similar to PSP). And of course if in fact 512 chips end up being cheaper because noone else wants 256 chips ... but I can't see any of these aspects as being currently relevant.

 

Proof to what? The RAM increase in the PSP was about battery life more than anything else. In the PS3 since you aren't worried about reducing optical reads to save electricity then all doubling the XDR does is increase the build cost.

 

Now owning a Ps3, one can tell it's expensive. Its large, it's heavy, it's glossy, it has fancy power buttons. it feels like a top end piece of electronics. While this is nice, it causes one to think, "no wonder they cant get the price down". It's a double edge sword I suppose.

 

Is their any database of serial numbers or whatever to tell what revision of the MB of the PS3 one has? Or are their specific models that we know have the revised chipsets?

 

You could always open it up and take some pictures. That's what I do with my hardware!

 

Yeah, no. I like my warranty.

 

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