New 40nm PS3 slims spoted in the wild

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Solid_Snake4RD said:

didn't say IBM wasn't developing 22nm process but the time it will take to come up with it will take atleast till FALL 2011.

 

likwe in past SONY canceled the 32nm process cause it was taking too much time and went back to researching 45nm.it could be that they skipped 32nm for all time and now concentrating on 22nm but they could save more money this fall by getting 32nm in the PS3's which will be available

yea i know i'm not saying that, i am saying that IBM already spent their investment back in 2008 to get to the 22nm scale just like Intel did for their Atom chip's.

since like the ATOM the Cell processor is also a SOC so there has already been if you take both companies road map's they both have been getting to that point at roughly the same time.

so with already both Intel , and IBM and already here at this :

as an example:

At 32nm a single fab can cost $4B and in just two years it’ll need to be upgraded (to the tune of around a billion) to support 22nm production. For AMD to support the costs alone and remain competitive with Intel, it would have to virtually own the x86 microprocessor market. Even when AMD held the technology crown, that didn’t happen.

The other alternative is to subsidize the cost of these expensive factories over multiple customers. This is where things get interesting. AMD alone may not be able to fill a fab and make the investment pay off, but AMD + Sony + Toshiba + NVIDIA + etc... can definitely make it work.

late 2010 and early 2011 it seem's is the timeline for 22nm scale's.

here is some great PDF's about the SOC scaling and the roadmap's for chip's not just processor's in the 22nm scale.

http://openpdf.com/ebook/45nm-32nm-22nm-pdf.html