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PS3 Cell?

by schultz_11 Aug 3, 2007 3:48AM PDT

Does anyone know if the new 65nm cells are in the PS3's yet, or if they still have the 90nm cells? Or when they will come out?

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by bevillan Aug 3, 2007 3:52AM PDT

I know that MS was planning on going from a 90nm chipset to a 65nm one. I didn't know Sony was going to do the same thing.

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What does it matter?

by jackson dougless Aug 3, 2007 5:00AM PDT

To the consumer, the die size of the chip makes no real difference. What it means to Sony, is that they might be able to squeeze and extra 1-2 chips out of every silicon wafer, reducing production costs.

They will still have exactly the same instruction sets, and will be clocked at the exact same speeds, so aside from running ever so slightly cooler... It's not like it's means Sony will be dropping PS3 prices just because it got a little cheaper to make them. They're still taking a pretty good sized loss on every system sold. I just don't get why people seem to care so much.

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