6GHz Cell Processor queued up for the PS3?
And the new Cell Processor award goes to…? Which device, exactly? Signs are pointing towards the next-Next-Gen PS3. Or at least, Spong tries to speculate this possibility. They had sniffed out some interesting notes from International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and a meeting about “Implementation of the CELL Broadband Engine in a 65nm SOI Technology.”
Given the PS3’s current Cell Processor, which runs at 3.2GHz and measured at 90-nano-metres (nm), it’s interesting to find a new chip in the game. ISSCC notes revealed that:
The (new) chip operates at 6GHz at 1.3V and is fabricated in a 65nm CMOS SOI technology. The 65nm CELL Broadband Engine design features a dual power supply, which enhances SRAM stability and performance using an elevated array-specific power supply, while reducing the logic power consumption.
Intriguing? Hold your horses. That’s not enough beef to prove that this supposed chip will head for the PS3. Not enough yet.
Apparently, among those who will attend this ISSCC conference would be a certain “S. Tokito” from SCE. Spong further speculates that this could possibly be Shizuo Tokito – the man behind the Blu-Ray. And if you put two and two together – the Cell Processor and Blue-Ray – the idea of this new processor heading to a future PS3 becomes that much more plausible.
Of course, there are other arguments that can be put forward here, one of which could be that the speculated new chip would be placed in the AV-centric PS3 that Ken Kutaragi “promised”. Whatever the case, the said meeting will take place this February 13, so sure enough, we’ll hear more about this 6GHz chip soon.
And the new Cell Processor award goes to…? Which device, exactly? Signs are pointing towards the next-Next-Gen PS3. Or at least, Spong tries to speculate this possibility. They had sniffed out some interesting notes from International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and a meeting about “Implementation of the CELL Broadband Engine in a 65nm SOI Technology.”
Given the PS3’s current Cell Processor, which runs at 3.2GHz and measured at 90-nano-metres (nm), it’s interesting to find a new chip in the game. ISSCC notes revealed that:
The (new) chip operates at 6GHz at 1.3V and is fabricated in a 65nm CMOS SOI technology. The 65nm CELL Broadband Engine design features a dual power supply, which enhances SRAM stability and performance using an elevated array-specific power supply, while reducing the logic power consumption.
Intriguing? Hold your horses. That’s not enough beef to prove that this supposed chip will head for the PS3. Not enough yet.
Apparently, among those who will attend this ISSCC conference would be a certain “S. Tokito” from SCE. Spong further speculates that this could possibly be Shizuo Tokito – the man behind the Blu-Ray. And if you put two and two together – the Cell Processor and Blue-Ray – the idea of this new processor heading to a future PS3 becomes that much more plausible.
Of course, there are other arguments that can be put forward here, one of which could be that the speculated new chip would be placed in the AV-centric PS3 that Ken Kutaragi “promised”. Whatever the case, the said meeting will take place this February 13, so sure enough, we’ll hear more about this 6GHz chip soon.
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