Decrease in PS3 manufacturing cost looming

By now, you already know about the production of the 65nm CELL for the PS3, but during Sony‘s quarter-end earnings call, CFO Takao Yuhara provided some new bits on the PS3’s manufacturing costs decrease.

Apparently, aside from the move to 65nm, there would also be a component update which aims to lessen the parts inside the console. As to the specifics of the component update, well, that’s open for speculation…for now.

Website beyond3D speculates that the update could involve the removal of the EE+GS chip, used to enable backwards compatibility. They think this would make sense because Sony is already hard-at-work to perfect PS2 software emulation, “removing the legacy hardware would reduce both chip expense and motherboard complexity.”

Aside from that, the Sony CFO indicated that as of December, blue laser diode yields have dramatically improved, and that the six million PS3s shipped by the end of March is still attainable.

The PS3’s manufacturing costs would decrease, will its retail price follow the same path? Takao Yuhara said that we shouldn’t expect price cuts, Michael Pachter said that it is very possible. Well, we just have to wait and see what happens next.

Via beyond3d

By now, you already know about the production of the 65nm CELL for the PS3, but during Sony‘s quarter-end earnings call, CFO Takao Yuhara provided some new bits on the PS3’s manufacturing costs decrease.

Apparently, aside from the move to 65nm, there would also be a component update which aims to lessen the parts inside the console. As to the specifics of the component update, well, that’s open for speculation…for now.

Website beyond3D speculates that the update could involve the removal of the EE+GS chip, used to enable backwards compatibility. They think this would make sense because Sony is already hard-at-work to perfect PS2 software emulation, “removing the legacy hardware would reduce both chip expense and motherboard complexity.”

Aside from that, the Sony CFO indicated that as of December, blue laser diode yields have dramatically improved, and that the six million PS3s shipped by the end of March is still attainable.

The PS3’s manufacturing costs would decrease, will its retail price follow the same path? Takao Yuhara said that we shouldn’t expect price cuts, Michael Pachter said that it is very possible. Well, we just have to wait and see what happens next.

Via beyond3d