Toshiba to manufacture PS3’s 45nm RSX chips by 2009, 65nm chips by next month

Nikkei’s just reported that Toshiba‘s planning to begin manufacturing more the PlayStation 3’s 65 nanometer RSX chipsets by next month. And while details are pretty sketchy, the financial paper also notes that Toshiba’s planning to manufacture an even smaller chipset in the not-too-distant future. More details on the report are available in the full article.

Japan‘s Nikkei financial paper has just disclosed Toshiba‘s upcoming plans for their RSX chips for the PlayStation 3. According to the report, Toshiba will begin manufacturing 65 nanometer chips by next month (December). As the readers will recall, the 40 GB PlayStation 3 that was launched last month makes use of the aforementioned chipset.

By comparison, the 20 GB and 60 GB SKUs are running on a larger 90 nm chip. The smaller component is reportedly one of the factors in the console’s price drop (currently US$ 399), and lower power requirements, albeit it does lack backwards-compatibility.

Further along, Nikkei also reports that Toshiba plans to manufacture an even smaller 45 nm RSX graphics chips for the PS3. No details have been announced regarding this, although the report states that the electronics manufacturer will begin production by March 2009.

Via Trading Markets