Looks like PS3 is getting 65-nanometer:
Toshiba to Produce New Chips Toshiba Corp. said Thursday it has jointly developed with Sony Corp. technology to mass-produce customized semiconductors with 65-nanometer circuit widths. Chips made with the technology are likely to be used in Sony's next generation game console, PlayStation 3. Toshiba said it is aiming to begin sample shipments in March 2004 and mass production of the chips during the first half of the fiscal year starting April 2005. The release date for the PlayStation 3 has been a heavily guarded secret, but the output plans for the chips could indicate when the console will hit store shelves. Toshiba said it expects to begin mass production of the chips at its factory in Oita prefecture, southern Japan. The chips Toshiba plans to make are System-on-a-Chip, or SoC, semiconductors. These chips function as a system or a subsystem by including key parts of the application -- in this case, some of Sony's PlayStation 3 game console system could be mounted on the chips. In addition to logic and analog circuits, an SoC typically has a computing engine and memory components. The new Toshiba-Sony SoC has 32 megabits of on-chip dynamic access memory -- enough to be used in DVD recorders, another hot digital product.
If I'm right, this chip size is smaller than the 95-nano that IBM is suppossed to release...
Chad4Mac
Toshiba to Produce New Chips Toshiba Corp. said Thursday it has jointly developed with Sony Corp. technology to mass-produce customized semiconductors with 65-nanometer circuit widths. Chips made with the technology are likely to be used in Sony's next generation game console, PlayStation 3. Toshiba said it is aiming to begin sample shipments in March 2004 and mass production of the chips during the first half of the fiscal year starting April 2005. The release date for the PlayStation 3 has been a heavily guarded secret, but the output plans for the chips could indicate when the console will hit store shelves. Toshiba said it expects to begin mass production of the chips at its factory in Oita prefecture, southern Japan. The chips Toshiba plans to make are System-on-a-Chip, or SoC, semiconductors. These chips function as a system or a subsystem by including key parts of the application -- in this case, some of Sony's PlayStation 3 game console system could be mounted on the chips. In addition to logic and analog circuits, an SoC typically has a computing engine and memory components. The new Toshiba-Sony SoC has 32 megabits of on-chip dynamic access memory -- enough to be used in DVD recorders, another hot digital product.
If I'm right, this chip size is smaller than the 95-nano that IBM is suppossed to release...
Chad4Mac
