Breaking Down the Dropping Parts Cost for Sony's PS3

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @07:31AM from the wait-until-it's-all-one-chip dept.

will_die writes "The people at iSuppli have taken apart an October 2008 version of the PlayStation 3 to create a bill of materials, along with providing a comparison to original PS3. The article provides information about the changes Sony has made. One of the big ones was that the hardware has gone from costing $690.23 to the current price of $448.73. This was done using a combination of removing parts (currently 2,820 vs. the original 4,048), cutting the cost of the CPU ($46.46 vs. $64.40), and cutting the cost of the graphics processor to $58.01 from $83.17."

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Re:asdf by Ethanol-fueled · 2008-12-30 07:39 · Score: 4, Funny

cutting the cost of the CPU ($46.46 vs. $64.40), and cutting the cost of the graphic processor to $46.46 from $64.40.
Whoa, so the Cell processor IS the graphics processor? Yo dawg, I heard you like to compute so I put a processor in your processor!
Re:lame by not+already+in+use · 2008-12-30 09:11 · Score: 5, Funny

Let's all take a moment to apologize to Bobtree for his wasted time clicking on this news story.

Sorry Bobtree.

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