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Smaller, quieter, cooler PS3 coming
Jun 30, 2008
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Tags: PS3 | Cell
Sony has confirmed that the next batch of its Darth Vader's toaster for joypad jigglers will be slimmed down in a number of ways.
A recent corporate strategy meeting saw Sony Entertainment President Kaz Hirai confirm that Sony's fabs had, for a number of months now, been churning out Cell processors for the next generation console using 65nm tecnology as opposed to the older, and much less efficient and more expensive 90nm silicon used in the past.

He also said that the company had been reducing costs by reducing the number of components used.

Hirai also confirmed that plans were afoot to switch the manufacture of the RSX 'Reality Synthesiser' graphics processor, developed by Nvidia, from 90nm to 65nm fabrication by this autumn.

So you'll soon be able to have a PS3 in your living room without feeling like you are living on a sub-tropical heli-pad.
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Comments: 2
nix
Jun 30, 2008 10:12 AM
This thing is quieter than my PS2, let alone the Xbox 360 or my pC... but I suppose more quietness is good...


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Smaller, quieter, cooler PS3 coming?
Sony has confirmed that the next batch of its Darth Vader's toaster for joypad jigglers will be slimmed down in a number of ways.

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kevin_watters
Jun 30, 2008 7:05 PM
Ok... I guess... does not need to be made smaller or quieter nor run cooler in my opinion. I dont hear mine at all... nor feel it even warm to the touch... but I guess if they need to mess with it then go ahead... as long as they dont mess anything up that already works.
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