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PSP Opened up and Exposed

Pascal writes "After delivering some classic first impressions of the PSP last Tuesday, including some interesting loading time tests, the happy thugs at Lik Sang have now respected their tradition by opening up the PlayStation Portable. If you ever wanted to know how Sony puts such a powerful hardware inside such a small casing, there is a huge picture gallery of the guts over at Lik-Sang.com"

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  1. Before any retard says it, PSP != Portable PS1. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For god's sake, look at the specs. This is. not. a. P. S. One.

    PSP CPU CORE
    MIPS R4000 32bit Core 128bit Bus
    1 - 333MHz @ 1.2V Main Memory :8MB(eDRAM)
    Bus Bandwidth :2.6GB/sec I-Cache, D-Cache
    FPU, VFPU (Vector Unit) @ 2.6GFlops
    3D-CG Extended Instructions

    PSP Media Engine
    MIPS R4000 32bit Core 128bit Bus
    1 - 333MHz @ 1.2V Sub Memory:2MB(eDRAM) @ 2.6GB/sec I-Cache, D-Cache
    90nm CMOS

    PSP Graphics Core 1
    3D Curved Surface + 3D Polygon
    Compressed Texture
    Hardware Clipping, Morphing, Bone(8)
    Hardware Tessellator
    Bezier, B-Spline(NURBS)
    ex 4x4, 16x16, 64x64 sub-division

    PSP Graphics Core 2
    'Rendering Engine' + 'Surface Engine'
    256bit Bus, 1-166 MHz @ 1.2V
    VRAM :2MB(eDRAM)
    Bus Bandwidth :5.3GB/sec
    Pixel Fill Rate :664 M pixels/sec
    max 33 M polygon /sec(T&L)
    24bit Full Color:RGBA

    PSP Sound Core: VME
    Reconfigurable DSPs
    128bit Bus
    166MHz @1.2V
    5 Giga Operations /sec
    CODEC
    3D Sound, Multi-Channel
    Synthesizer, Effecter, etc

    AVC Decoder
    AVC(H.264) Decoder
    Main Profile
    Baseline Profile
    @Level1,Level2,Level3
    2Hours(High Quality) - DVD movie
    4Hours(Standard Quality) - CS Digital

    I/O
    USB 2.0
    Memory Stick
    Extension Port(reserved)
    Stereo Head phone Out

    Communication
    Wireless LAN (i802.11)
    IrDA
    USB 2.0