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Sony to reveal smaller, more efficient Cell processor at ISSCC 2008 |
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Sony proved once again that size does matter when the company announced the new 45 nm Cell processor that it will be featuring in this year's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco.The Cell Broadband Engine, used to power Sony's PlayStation 3 console, will be migrated from its previous 65 nm version to a more compact 45 nm model. Beyond the gaming industry however, this may also help advance different fields of study as the Cell Broadband Engine is also used in areas such as medicine, software and architecture.
The small chip area size will have a more efficient power consumption rate of up to 40% lower compared to its predecessor. They are also looking into improving the design for manufacturability for Cell to simplify the CPU production process.
Other developments in the area of microprocessor improvements also include Intel's quad-core Itanium Tukwila, as well as the entry-level Silverthorne CPUs and Sun's 16-core Niagara 3 chip. All these will new advances will be featured at the ISSCC, which will be held at the Florence Metropole Hilton in San Francisco from February 3 to 7.
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I knew Kaz would lie about there not being a price cut for the PS3.
Anyway I think the analyst that said there will be a price cut soon is correct.
Wow my goodness, PS3 is starting to cost less and less every year. Next year we will probably get a 200 dollar PS3, maybe a PS3 slim line but you have to agree, they are doing these price cuts every year and its doing them pretty well, even though its costing them alot of money on the old PS3's.
I believe that Sony will do great with a cheaper cell processor and PS3 costs.
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microsoft will be all over our dingdongs!! and in our i mean all the people that are strickly ps3
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