Sony game system said to have strength of 100 PCs

[CN-Twat]

Still Holding out for the PS3?

Sony says its next-generation video-game console will feature an architecture that will allow it to pack the processing power of 100 personal computers on a single chip.

The console, due in just two years, also would tap the resources of additional computers using high-speed network connections.

If key technical hurdles are overcome, the "cell microprocessor" technology, described in a patent Sony quietly secured in September, could help the Japanese electronics giant achieve the industry's Holy Grail: a cheap, all-in-one box for the home that can record TV shows, surf the Internet in 3-D, play music and run movielike video games.

Besides the PlayStation 3 game console, Sony and its partners, IBM and Toshiba, hope to use the same basic chip design -- which organizes small groups of microprocessors to work together like bees in a hive -- for a range of computing devices, from tiny hand-held personal digital assistants to the largest corporate servers.

Read the rest of story from the Kansas City Star

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansas...ss/5410627.htm

[CN-Twat]

Memory maker Elpida has licensed Rambus' Yellowstone high-bandwidth interface technology, the pair announced today.

Elpida joins Sony and Toshiba as Yellowstone licensees. Sony and Toshiba are believed to want the technology for the Playstation 3. Elpida wants it for its high-end offerings.

Rambus expects the first Yellowstone-based memory products to ship late 2004/early 2005.

Yellowstone takes memory throughput to 3.2GBps, but the technology has room to expand that to 6.4GBps, enabling 50GBps to 100GBps of memory system bandwidth. It leverages Rambus' FlexPhase system to ensure each bit arrives almost perfectly aligned with the clock cycle. Differential Rambus Signaling Level, which enables low-voltage, low-power, differential signaling, and ODR (Octal Data Rate), which allows eight bits of data to be transferred on each clock edge, form the core of Yellowstone.

Rambus claims Yellowstone lowers system cost through pin-count reduction and support for low-cost, high-volume PCBs and packages.

"We evaluated a number of different advanced memory interface technologies and concluded that the Rambus Yellowstone memory interface is one of the best the market has to offer," said Elpida's chief strategy officer, Hidemori Inukai, said in statement, though you'll note that it's not exactly a ringing endorsement: "one of the best" doesn't mean the same thing as 'the best'.

"We believe Yellowstone will have a promising future in applications that need very high bandwidth," he added.

[woore]

I Can't wait 2 years i want it now. ps3 ahhhhhhhhh

[Fat_Mike]

could help the Japanese electronics giant achieve the industry's Holy Grail: a cheap, all-in-one box for the home that can record TV shows, surf the Internet in 3-D, play music and run movielike video games.

Now, who the hell told those big company that what I want is a console that can record friggin TV show and surf the net in 3D?! I don't want any of that, I just want a video games system. I have a VHS and a computer to do those thing. Ok, I can't surf in ''3D'', but what's that suppose to mean anyway? It must be that surfing shit they were doing in Hacker back then I guess...

[necrolop]

Why do you feel compelled to post a news story that is sooo old. Man Ive known every one bit of Info you posted plus 10 times more for a long time. Was I the only one that read the PSM artical like over a year ago?

Sorry for the cynical response, but damn.

[valakos]

every 5 years video game manufacturers launch a new console heralding a new era in entertainment - more power, more functions etc, but there is only one thing that counts and that's the games. I still play my good ol super nintendo for Donkey kong country and mario rpg bacause they were excellent games, specs don't seem to impress me as much. The only thing that worries me is that selling the ps23 as an online machne will probably make the ps3 VERY difficult to play bakups on.

[valakos]

every 5 years video game manufacturers launch a new console heralding a new era in entertainment - more power, more functions etc, but there is only one thing that counts and that's the games. I still play my good ol super nintendo for Donkey kong country and mario rpg bacause they were excellent games, specs don't seem to impress me as much. The only thing that worries me is that selling the ps3 as an online machne will probably make the ps3 VERY difficult to play bakups on.

[spazz]

what i've learned thru many years in the scene and very ambitious ppl is that. Anything can be done, sloppy or cleanly. the ps3 protection always can be defeated.

[ak747]

Don't expect too much about PS3. Do you know how hard those game programer coding PS2? Well with PS3 is 100 times harder!!! Please read this and their respons:
http://firingsquad.gamers.com/news/n...?searchid=4905
BTW PS3 is not come out till 2006 because PS2 and games are still selling strong according to this:
http://firingsquad.gamers.com/news/n...?searchid=4917
and this:
http://firingsquad.gamers.com/news/n...?searchid=4946

[jbx]

A word of advice. No point in getting the PS3 when it's out. Wait 1 year after the release, see how the games are rolling in. And by then, the price will drop and modchip will be stable .