PS3 CPU Die Shrink?

[Junaid Alam]

PS3 CPU Die Shrink?

Sony's latest 40 GB iteration of the PlayStation 3 console may have shrunk in more than its hard drive capacity.

A German website, Computerbase.de, reports that the new console will run a 65 nanometer version of the Cell processor.

The $400 unit will be rid of the PS2's Emotion chip, graphics synth chip and two USB ports.

The German site also asserts a smaller heat pipe and new motherboard have been implemented.

It adds that the production changes should result in less heat and noise - though, unlike the 360, the PS3 has not been vulnerable to claims of faulty production.

Gamesindustry.biz [http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=30102]

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[Chinster]

Less noise = good
Less heat = good

I never found the PS3 to be overly noisy anyway, not when compared to the 360.

If this is true it really didn't take them all that long to come up with a die shrink and put it into production. Took MS nearly two years.

Now, if they could manage to shrink the size of the console I'd be REALLY impressed