How much will the PS3's price cut be? and when?

[Dolla Dolla]

The 65nm chips would definitely reduce the price. You are correct, dallas, in that they change the motherboard, as well, to support the 65nm chips, but these changes are usually reduction in the parts used. The CPU is smaller, consumes less power which means they can reduce the amount of transistors on the board, and they can produce a greater number of 65nm chips at the same price as the 90nm chips. For example (and this is just a rough example, not one to be taken serious), let's say in this picture: they squeeze 100 90nm chips on that wafer. When they reduce the chip size to 65nm, they'll be able to produce about 30% more chips, or about 130 65nm chips. That means, for the price you would've made 100 90nm chips, you just made 130 65nm chips. This would be the same for the GPU, as well, when they reduce it to 65nm.