Some quotes about PS3 CPU

[Deepak]

Link

"PlayStation 3 will support the DTS Coherent Acoustics surround sound, it seems safe to say, after Digital Theater Systems announced that the format will be a "mandatory audio technology" for the Blu-ray disc medium, which Sony last week confirmed that it plans to use in PlayStation 3 in a read-only format."

 

[Deepak]

Found some PS3 related articles while googling...

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[one]

Found some PS3 related articles while googling...

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The first one was on Linux Insider a while ago, but didn't know there're sequels, thx. His view is a bit too simple, and inconsistent (sometimes conservative sometimes dreamy) though.

 

[Brimstone]

When it comes to cooling the PS3 maybe Foxconn Electronics is working on this problem with Sony.

Playstation 3 supported by Foxconn

According to the Taiwan Economic News on 6 July 2002, the Taiwanese electronics giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (FoxConn) is aiming at joint development with Sony for the Playstation 3 console. Foxconn president Terry Guo announced that Foxconn, which is the largest privately held company in Taiwan for its turnover, has formed a Research & Development team for PlayStation 3 with Sony. [Taipei, July 6 2002]

http://www.psreporter.com/playstation_3_news.html


They build Rambus heat spreaders and PC/Server cases among many other things.

Rambus Products

PC Enclosures

Foxconn holds more than 2,000 patents globally. The relentless drive for innovation enables Foxconn to bring new products to the market quickly.

I wonder what intresting patents they may have?


Foxconn Heat Guzzler Heatsink Review



Diabolic MINOTAUR Series ATX Mid Gaming Tower

I doubt the PS3 will look like that case!

 

[one]

When it comes to cooling the PS3 maybe Foxconn Electronics is working on this problem with Sony.

Playstation 3 supported by Foxconn

According to the Taiwan Economic News on 6 July 2002, the Taiwanese electronics giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (FoxConn) is aiming at joint development with Sony for the Playstation 3 console. Foxconn president Terry Guo announced that Foxconn, which is the largest privately held company in Taiwan for its turnover, has formed a Research & Development team for PlayStation 3 with Sony. [Taipei, July 6 2002]

Not sure about patents, but Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. manages recent generation of PS2 production for Sony in the mainland China, hence I guess the R&D is more about product logistics than core-technology relationship. Maybe PS3 production will be moved to China when the platform get mature and price competition heat up, or non-significant parts may be assembled in China from the day 1 of its life cycle.

 

[PC-Engine]

Isn't Foxconn in the same business as Flextronics?

Something is eating at the heart of Flextronics. Nine years ago, the electronics giant moved its headquarters from California to Singapore to be closer to its low-cost Asian manufacturing base. The company embraced a new style of production called electronics manufacturing services (EMS), churning out products designed by global brand-name companies at low cost and high volume. It met with much success, becoming the world's second-largest EMS company after Solectron, making everything from Ericsson mobile phones to Microsoft X-Boxes

"Flextronics is not as dominant in China as Foxconn (Hon Hai's consumer name)," says William Ozer, Nortel Networks' Hong Kong-based vice-president of supply chain operations. "They get a lot of support from Taiwan... financial as well as know-how. I don't know if Flextronics has the ability to enjoy that," he says.

Hon Hai is a vertically integrated EMS firm that makes Apple's iMac and Sony's PlayStation 1, among many other products. It is known for its strong mechanical tooling skills, employing 3,500 tooling engineers including 1,000 designers. Sharon Su, a Taipei-based analyst for UBS Warburg, says Hon Hai used its tooling abilities to focus on PC enclosures.

 

[hey69]

some ibm stuff

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...Yet IBM acknowledges that certain applications would benefit from having lots of cores. The Cell processor, which IBM is jointly creating with Sony and Toshiba, will combine at least eight small processors with a single PowerPC processor on a single chip for use in the PlayStation 3 video game console. The software problem is not as important in such an application, because game developers already have to write somewhat customized programs for the PlayStation. But IBM, Sony and Toshiba also hope to use the chips in a variety of server and consumer electronics applications.


A truely bad news for SCEI


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...IBM believes that Sun is going down the wrong road with its multicore processor for the server market, says Ravi Arimilli, chief architect of the Power5 microprocessor, which uses two cores. Software hasn't yet hit the point where it can be efficiently spread across so many processors, he says. IBM plans to stay at two cores for the foreseeable future in its microprocessor designs. PMC-Sierra's Riordan agrees. The software problem is why so many of the network processors that used dozens of cores failed in the past several years.

 

[nAo]

The Cell processor, which IBM is jointly creating with Sony and Toshiba, will combine at least eight small processors with a single PowerPC processor on a single chip for use in the PlayStation 3 video game console.

So is it 'official' now?
Original link?

ciao,
Marco

 

[V3]

So is it 'official' now?

So PS3 going to contain just one PE now ?

 

[Vince]

So is it 'official' now?

So PS3 going to contain just one PE now ?

Every week it changes. Like last week we were pimpin' the guy who is royalty at SCEA-Foster that claims there have been varients with upto 128APUs, this week we're down to 8... gotta keep mixing it up

 

[Guden Oden]

Hopefully Sony won't use that "heat guzzler" sink for PS3, some review site took a hacksaw to one and found out the heatpipe was completely EMPTY... Just a hollow tube!

Of course, the sink performed like ass too as one would expect.

 

[fxtech]

8 APU per PE , not 128 per PE , 128 in total he said

so 4 or 8 PE still here you know ?

 

[MrSingh]

The Cell processor, which IBM is jointly creating with Sony and Toshiba, will combine at least eight small processors with a single PowerPC processor on a single chip for use in the PlayStation 3 video game console.

So is it 'official' now?
Original link?

ciao,
Marco

uCanBetUrAss!

 

[bbot]

Looks like Deadmeat was correct when he said one cell will have a computational power of approximately one gigaflops. So those who laughed at him now have egg on their face.

 

[DeanoC]

Looks like Deadmeat was correct when he said one cell will have a computational power of approximately one gigaflops. So those who laughed at him now have egg on their face.

How, even in Sony's worse nightmare is a Cell going to have one gigaflop?

They could just stick a PS2 vector unit in there to go higher than that!

 

[bbot]

Ken Kutaragi at the 2002 TGS, said one cell = approx. one gigaflops. It was a Japanese article at the www.impress.co.jp . Most people here thought that perhaps Kutaragi was talking about blue gene, not cell. I'll try to retrieve the article but your browser needs to be able to handle Japanese characters.

 

[McFly]

PS3 is slower then PS2!

Fredi

 

[bbot]

Here's the article. It's in Japanese, however.

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20020921/tgsf.htm

Cell:

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20020921/tgsf15.htm

 

[one]

Ken Kutaragi at the 2002 TGS, said one cell = approx. one gigaflops. It was a Japanese article at the www.impress.co.jp . Most people here thought that perhaps Kutaragi was talking about blue gene, not cell. I'll try to retrieve the article but your browser needs to be able to handle Japanese characters.

You know...

cell != Cell != Broadband Engine

 

[m1nd_x]

Looks like Deadmeat was correct when he said one cell will have a computational power of approximately one gigaflops. So those who laughed at him now have egg on their face.

How, even in Sony's worse nightmare is a Cell going to have one gigaflop?

They could just stick a PS2 vector unit in there to go higher than that!

wow!!!!!!!! 1 gigaflop?!?!??

[sarcasm] that is totally amazing, like omg!1!! [/sarcasm]

that can't possibly be right.. if so, i will laugh myself to death., the psp will own the ps3 if that is true..