Sony game system said to have strength of 100 PCs

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.

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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.

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.

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 .

[necrolop]

The scene isnt all about modchips, its about gamimg. I get all my consoles the miinute they come out. Also the info you find around the net is so inaccurate you guys.

I boo this trhead.

actually im not condoning piracy, i have bought a few games off ps2, i played a "backedup copy" of a game, and bought it. but not everyone is not like myself and maybe others.

man, what are you all discussing about? in 3 years lots of things can change.

nothing is definitive right now

[ThAD0oD]

yeah, back when they were talking about the ps2, they said you could take a picture of your face and put it onto a character in a game (and "play as that character") but you dont see that now do you

i dont doubt that the cell will live up to what they've said though...

and they seemed to have dropped the first tag line about ps3 - 1000 times more powerful than the ps2.. now its 100x a p4 2Ghz.. or to what ive read

[evlcookie]

bloody hell thats all old news.. sorry but it is..
no one really knows what the "cell" is capable off.. probably not much really
100x more powerfull? we lookin at 200+ghz pc's .. or just a chip that has the ability to produce massive amounts of gigaflops.. probably neither as well
its been "stated" that it will be "internet" based so u get a box.. surf the net on the tv.. get games via the net who knows.. all probably early ass marketing ploy to make us go oooh interesting.

ps3 will be the first console to be released and they will release it when there damn ready.. think about it and u will figure out why.
rambus is expensive ram .. its "quick" but hell in 2yrs time that ram better be 10x faster than my cpu or ill smack em in the head.

dont get too "Excited" its just bullcrap untill u see it, feel it, touch it, and experience it , then u can say if its real or just utter crap

[evlcookie]

oh and last but not least

"yeah, back when they were talking about the ps2, they said you could take a picture of your face and put it onto a character in a game (and "play as that character") but you dont see that now do you "

um yes that can be done now .. some jap games have it.. ps2 has a camera and so on.. yes its japanese. . the games are pretty shitty.. but it does exist.. give it another yr or so or it to be "good"

[Joe Mama]

I think the only way that I will run out and buy this new console after its released is if it comes standard with a wet hole surrounded with a little hair. I like my PS2 and it took me a while to actually go out and get that. (I think my last console was a SNES)
Damn it I want a holemate not a soulmate...
Errrr, I mean the WHOLE mate
-Me

[SilverSurfer]

Dont get too excited. Remember what Sony promised us with PS2? PS2 is the most overhyped console in the history of everything. Sony promised us with Ken Kuturagis own words: "Our goal is to achieve a film-like graphics quality that won't make viewers conscious of or annoyed by the fact that they are indeed looking at computer graphics". BULLSHIT ALL THE WAY.

More bullshit from mr kuturagi when asked about how powerful PS2 will be: "Current (1998) parameters cant cope with the technology leap planned by Sony" Jesus!

Then in march 1999 Sony went on to show "PS2 demos" with graphics that the real PS2 will never be able to even remotely match. Bullshit one more time.

In reality what we got was a console that has difficulty in even matching the 1½ years older Dreamcast. The US dreamcast launchgame Soul Calibur still looks better than any fighting game released on PS2.

PS2 launchgames was the biggest pile of rubbish ever, and there basically wasnt anything to play on the machine for NINE months.

PS2 have improved greatly since, some of it's latest games look good, and with all sorts of emulators, divxplayers ect it is still a great console to own. But it will never be able to live up to what was promised. *remembers the also greatly overhyped piece of trash N64

Have you played onimusha2????
The graphics are amazing!!! see it for yourself
I thought I was a real movie scene
It's like final fantasy but the movie itself was like computer graphic
And I disagree with that you saying that dreamcast is good as ps2.
They both are 128bit console but surley u could see the difference between the tekken3 fmv and soul caliber fmv
ps1 is 64bit!!
It's the game designers that are lazy and use ingame graphics so don't say all those stuff to the console...(well I agree u also....

Originally posted by SilverSurfer
Dont get too excited. Remember what Sony promised us with PS2? PS2 is the most overhyped console in the history of everything. Sony promised us with Ken Kuturagis own words: "Our goal is to achieve a film-like graphics quality that won't make viewers conscious of or annoyed by the fact that they are indeed looking at computer graphics". BULLSHIT ALL THE WAY.

More bullshit from mr kuturagi when asked about how powerful PS2 will be: "Current (1998) parameters cant cope with the technology leap planned by Sony" Jesus!

Then in march 1999 Sony went on to show "PS2 demos" with graphics that the real PS2 will never be able to even remotely match. Bullshit one more time.

In reality what we got was a console that has difficulty in even matching the 1?years older Dreamcast. The US dreamcast launchgame Soul Calibur still looks better than any fighting game released on PS2.

PS2 launchgames was the biggest pile of rubbish ever, and there basically wasnt anything to play on the machine for NINE months.

PS2 have improved greatly since, some of it's latest games look good, and with all sorts of emulators, divxplayers ect it is still a great console to own. But it will never be able to live up to what was promised. *remembers the also greatly overhyped piece of trash N64

[Fat_Mike]

Well, you should really stop looking at video game system according to the numbers of bits. That doesn't mean much. And correct me if I'm wrong, but the PSX is 32Bit, not 64.