| Zlejedi said: Case is dirt cheap - only initial cost of molds could be high but even then with economy of scale of few dozens of milions it will be something like a buck or two (maybe even less) The only things that can be expensive here is quad core arm and 4 gpus but those will be dropping in price very fast with 2011/2012 shift into 28nm production process. Also OLED screens can't be that expensive: Samsung Wave costs 300 euro to buy in shop and comes with 3,3" 480x800 oled screen 1Ghz arm cpu and powerfull gpu. |
Samsung fabs their own chips, Oled screens get much more costly as they get bigger and I believe they use a cheaper pentile configuration whilst Sony does not and that 1Ghz arm CPU/GPU will be significantly cheaper than the NGP one. Finally Sony may have opted for Li - Po batteries rather than more conventional Lithium cells and process shrinks aren't always cheaper on a per transistor basis, keep that in mind. AMD gave up on 32nm for their GPUs for precisely that reason.
Tease.
