TheBigFatJ on 03 October 2007
| davygee said: I think this will be the case, or will be the case in the near future. Getting rid of all the PS2 related chips as well as the extra USB ports etc, should make the motherboard half the size. Also, isn't there some mention of them developing the RSX chip to have integrated EE emulation? I think this would be a super smart move. A nice slimline PS3. It' could easily be 2/3rds of the size. Also there is the different in currents for the IO ports, Wifi etc as well. |
I don't quite get how you're concluding the motherboard can be 1/2 the size and that you can create a slimline PS3 at 2/3rds of the size. The size could be shrunk a little, I think, by removing a few superfluous ports, but you still have a lot of heat/airflow considerations. Once the cell and RSX shrink to a .45nm process, shrinking the PS3 to a signfiicantly smaller size (such as 2/3rds of the current size) may be a possibility.
