Technology for the next Playstation

Toshiba and Sony will present papers at the ISSCC about what Techweb believes will be the CPU of the next Playstation. Interestingly this design places more processing demands on the CPU, a growing trend throughout the low-cost industry. Cyrix' MediaGX parts reduce cost by providing on-board video and audio, where most of the complexity is put in software, with hardware assist only where it is justified. Transmeta's patent and EPIC similarly reduce hardware complexity by moving it into software.