Sony is tightening down costs for the PS3- a report on the blu ray diode

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larry said:

NJ5 said:

Kwaad, where did you get those numbers? See this link:

http://i.cmpnet.com/eetimes/eedesign/2006/chart1_111607.gif

According to that link, in November 2006:

Emotion chip: $27 (you said $45)

Blu-ray drive: $125 (you said $200)

Cell: $89 (you said $95)

So according to this and your new cost numbers (which I don't know where you got either), the current cost savings would be at 27+75+29 = 131, best case... Now give some sources for your current $50 price of the blu -ray drive please.

 

this is not true. These are estimates by iSUPPLY. iSUPPLY has also stated that the production price of RSX
was 125$ . On the other hand merrilll lynch/morgan put that to 70$ which is more likely (if RSX is not based off a completely new architecture which could also be the case).

8800 gtx costs around 80$ to manufacture. so definitely RSX which is being mass produced should cost less (if not based off a completely dif.......).

the blue-ray diode initially used to cost 68$...that would dwindle to 8 by june.

Cell used to cost around 200$ as well. the R&D of Cell was 1.7 billion (400 million contributed solely to the research facilities in Texas,+establishments of manufacturing plants elsewhere added to the costs).

as for x360 thr price of DVD DRIVE is already lowered .the production price was at a bre minimum from the very beginning.

ps3 has achieved the economies of scale and i am sure production cost per unit has also been reduced to 500$ due to mass production.

i wont be surprised to see a price cut in June.

 

 

 Both prices for the RSC could be right. iSupply included the 256MB of GDDR3 RAM with the RSX price. It could be that the Merril Lynch price is just for the GPU.