PS3 to get smaller RSX graphics chip

SCE CEO Kaz Hirai has confirmed that the PS3 Cell processors will use new, smaller RSX graphics chips this “fall”.

“The Cell and RSX used in PS3s at launch were manufactured using a 90nm process technology. And now all PS3 Cells have shifted to 65nm process technology since last holiday season,” he said today in the PlayStation Business Review in Tokyo.

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7 comments

mortiferus
26/06/08, 8:36 pm

Cheaper PS3 for Christmas? Hope so.

ecu
26/06/08, 8:49 pm

Nah. They’re trying to turn a profit this year, remember?

mortiferus
26/06/08, 9:25 pm

Yep, indeed Ecu, good point.

Psychotext
26/06/08, 9:48 pm

I wonder when their roadmap has them merging the two chips… if at all.

Daniel Plainview
27/06/08, 2:46 am

“merging the two chips” i think the cell was supposed to do everything at one stage

Blerk
27/06/08, 8:34 am

Don’t you mean “PS3s will use new, smaller RSX graphics chips”? You make it sound like the RSX is a part of the Cell itself. Which it isn’t.

And yes, at one point they thought they wouldn’t need a graphics chip and that everything would be handled by the Cell. I guess that didn’t work out too well.

Psychotext
27/06/08, 8:36 am

Daniel Plainview: The cell was originally supposed to do everything… but back at that stage it was 2 cells, and the design on them was considerably more powerful than the one they’re using now.