Patcher: PS3 $100 Price Cut in April, 360 to Follow, Wii... maybe

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Zlejedi said:

omgwtfbbq said:

you clearly misunderstand moore's law. Moore's law only applies to processors and it only applies to increase in the number of transistors, not a decrease in price.

Actually you are wrong too. It's oversimplification that it only aplies to CPU as in orginal he mentioned doubling the density of transistors.

And cost of electronic device is very dependant on the size of die.

 

Yes, you are correct, it WAS an oversimplification, which I did on purpose. The point was in the case of a PS3 it only really applies to processors, as the law states "the number of transistors that can be inexpensively placed in a single IC doubles every 24 months". the big expensive ICs in the PS3 are the processors.

My main points were twofold: Firstly, that it doesn't automatically apply to all components of the PS3 (although scottie did point out some other electronics it applies to).

Secondly, that Moore's Law says absolutely NOTHING about cost reduction in current components.