stranne on 07 February 2008
| Jandre002 said: Man I was thinking that this cell shrinking thing was just IBM info, but someone tied it to Sony and the PS3. It turns out that this whole process has been carried out specifically for the PS3. Sony will begin using this chip, acccording to the article. Seems that a "Slim PS3" isnt too far away after all. We may see it by the end of the year. It saves sony huge amounts of money, will sell to many more consumers, so I guess the question is why not. Now it seems that the price will hit $299 by years end for sure and possibly hit $250 the following year. 45nm means higher success rate when creating the cell, less heat reduction costs, on top of the 45nm cell costing less to create itself. Add to that the much smaller diode created by Sony itself, and you get a compact, low heat, relatively less expensive, more reliable console. Hopefully people don't bash this success and instead celebrate the fact that everyone will soon be able to afford this extremely powerful console, whether you have another next-gen system or not. |
Higher success rate? How? Surely the 65nm process must be a lot more mature than the 45nm process. I agree with your other points though.
