Sony will have 45nm prototype this year!

[Terarrim]

Information provided through the ISSCC 2008 program are brief, but the document - which was posted earlier this month on the ISSCC website – offers some insight what we can expect to learn this year. Sony is apparently working on a 65 nm to 45 nm migration of its Cell Broadband Engine. Sony claims that the chip area size will be reduced by 34% and the 45 nm Cell will consume 40% less power than the 65 nm generation. The company also works on improving the design for manufacturability (DFM) for Cell to simplify the CPU production process.

more here:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/45nm-Cell-BE,news-27328.html

One wonders if this was the source of the PS3 slim rumor thats going around at the moment?

thanks to Vistrix from Ps3forums for spotting this one.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Already posted in the 45nm Cell thread. Without a link to source there though!