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Playstation 3 Gathering Components

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gta-of-tomorrow dept.

briancnorton writes "Cnet has a story about how Sony has licensed some Rambus connection technology for the playstation 3. One technology is for chip-to-chip communications and the other for chip-to-RAM at over 100 Gbps. These are all parts of the 'Cell' processor system that is supposed to do over '1 trillion mathematical calculations per second.'"

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  1. overkill? by tps12 · · Score: -1, Troll

    This sounds pretty impressive, but is it really necessary? TV sets are limited to 640x480 and 24 fps, so all that power isn't even going to be seen. Already, with the current generation of console systems, game companies can't put enough detail into their graphics to stretch the limits of the hardware. There's just no market for a more powerful system. Game companies are going to stick to the current consoles rather than investing in new platforms whose advantages won't even be noticed. In fifteen years, we'll all still be playing our PlayStation 2 systems.

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  2. Perhaps.... by Zapateria · · Score: 0, Troll

    ....they should invest some money in designing a new controller instead. They wont be able to get away with that crappy design with another console.

  3. XBOX is so out of date by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Even though xbox came after PS2 the graphics of PS still gives XBOX run for its technology. The root of this maybe is that windoze and directx is such a old technology.

    PS3 will actually show how outdated M$ windows and directx is. Directx has always been an inferior product but monopoly made it acceptable in windoze.

    Even desktop linux is proving how bad of OS is windoze.

    windoze days are over and so is M$.