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Toshiba to manufacture PS3's 45nm RSX chips by 2009, 65nm chips by next month |
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Japan's Nikkei financial paper has just disclosed Toshiba's upcoming plans for their RSX chips for the PlayStation 3. According to the report, Toshiba will begin manufacturing 65 nanometer chips by next month (December). As the readers will recall, the 40 GB PlayStation 3 that was launched last month makes use of the aforementioned chipset.
By comparison, the 20 GB and 60 GB SKUs are running on a larger 90 nm chip. The smaller component is reportedly one of the factors in the console's price drop (currently US$ 399), and lower power requirements, albeit it does lack backwards-compatibility.
Further along, Nikkei also reports that Toshiba plans to manufacture an even smaller 45 nm RSX graphics chips for the PS3. No details have been announced regarding this, although the report states that the electronics manufacturer will begin production by March 2009.
Via Trading Markets
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Indeed, the ps3 will be slim in about two years I'd say. 45nm chips would be really small chips... lol. Anyway, a lot of people tend of wait till consoles are up to their second version. A slim model would sell a lot!
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The 40GB PS3 uses 65nm Cell but still 90nm RSX. The chip Toshiba will START MANUFACTURING (hint: chips aren't built in BEFORE they are manufactured) next month will start hitting the PS3 some time early if not mid 2008.
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