Sony losing about $40 on each PS3

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makingmusic476 said:

Stefan.De.Machtige said:

talkingparrot said:
Despite the negative spin that will obviously be generated by the OP - this is actually good news. It shows Sony is very close to cutting even. This Fall when the 45 nm gets installed, with a smaller mother board, an external power supply, and a overall smaller chasis - you can rack that up to a savings of almost 100 bucks- Perfect for a slim line :D.

If they actually save a 100$. And that's a big if. The 45 nm switch won't get them that much. Why do you think they would pass that on to the consumer? Sony needs all the profits it can muster. It's operating more or less in survivalmode.

 

 

If they go slimline, it will lead to a decent amount of cost saving.  Dropping to 45nm Cell and RSX leads to more dies per ceramic wafer, which leads to far less ceramic used.  Plus, because the new chips use less power and produce less heat, this leads to smaller power supplies, heatsinks, and fans, which leads to a smaller motherboard overall, which means they'll be using less materials on the motherboard in addition to less materials on these other parts.  If they can manage to cram all that into a much smaller case, that'll be yet another area where they can save money on plastics.

Dropping to 45nm Cell+RSX should save them more money than any hardware reduction yet, if they can manage to create a slim ps3.

PPC based chips have a very high failure rate when it come to die fabrication for the first few months of a swithc like that historically the switch to 45 nm wont pay off till latter, you can look at most prior IBM/Freescale/Motorola PPC chips to see that

the rest of it i cant really make a guess on but i will say you are putting way to much of a price break on a PPC after a fab change they are never cheap,and it can take over a year in some cases to solve issues with the new fab size ... ppc 970fx is a good example of this, and it is in the same family of chips the cell springs from