So, a lot of evidence (in a quote box below for the sake of tidiness) points to development of the PS3's Cell chip which has shrunk it from a 45nm size to 22nm.
The recent release of the PS3 Super Slim shipped with the same 45nm chip that the larger PS3 Slim did.
So what is Sony planning to do with this smaller Cell chip? It's going to be far more efficient in terms of heat and power consumption.
Will we see a release of a more efficient PS3 Super Slim, or maybe a brand new console revision with an even smaller form factor?
Personally I believe they will just release the more efficient Super Slim, as revising the PS3 at this stage probably wouldn't be cost efficient due to the development and incoming release of the PS4 (which is clearly their priority now).
I just thought it would be good to get some opinions on this. Personally, I still have an 80GB Phatty PS3 and would be interested in picking up a PS3 with a 22nm Cell because of the greater reliability, what with PS4 on the horizon (and confirmed not to have PS3 BC).
What do you think, GAF?
"Elizabeth Gerhard's Projects
PlayStation 3
Team Members: Elizabeth Gerhard
- Owned the array design for a 1.6GHz TLB array in the 90nm node.
- Co-owned the delivery of a 128K custom L2 Cache array in the 90nm node.
- Led a team that delivered the L2cache array macro in the 65nm and 45nm nodes.
- Owned the register file cell qualification analysis in the 22nm node
- Owned the design of a 3.2GHz one read one write custom register file array in the 22nm node."
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/elizabeth-gerhard/45/718/7b7
http://www.linkedin.com/in/chenguo
The recent release of the PS3 Super Slim shipped with the same 45nm chip that the larger PS3 Slim did.
So what is Sony planning to do with this smaller Cell chip? It's going to be far more efficient in terms of heat and power consumption.
Will we see a release of a more efficient PS3 Super Slim, or maybe a brand new console revision with an even smaller form factor?
Personally I believe they will just release the more efficient Super Slim, as revising the PS3 at this stage probably wouldn't be cost efficient due to the development and incoming release of the PS4 (which is clearly their priority now).
I just thought it would be good to get some opinions on this. Personally, I still have an 80GB Phatty PS3 and would be interested in picking up a PS3 with a 22nm Cell because of the greater reliability, what with PS4 on the horizon (and confirmed not to have PS3 BC).
What do you think, GAF?