Ho pensato di aprire questo topic per parlare di tutti i dati ufficiali che sono stati rilasciati,nonchè delle informazioni e dei rumor che circolano per la rete,riguardanti la nuova console di casa Sony.
Le fonti dei dati riportati sono:IGN,Gameindustry,PS3portal,psinext,TeamXbox
Partiamo dal Cell,nuovo processore basato su tecnologia Power(Power 4,Power 5,Power PC 970 alias G5),realizzato da IBM,Sony e Toshiba.
-Il Cell viene definito come un processore estremamente potente, ma anche estremamente versatile e facile da programmare.
The Cell processor that will power the next version of the PlayStation game console will also be adaptable for advanced scientific research, but you won't have to be a rocket scientist to program it.
"We're very much aware of the need to balance between innovation in architecture and the ability to leverage that innovation," H. Peter Hofstee, a researcher in IBM's Systems and Technology division, said during a break at an IBM press event in San Francisco today. "The learning curve for this platform should be significantly better than previous ones."
"We've created something that is very flexible," he said. "Having a more generic architecture will allow people to do new things."
-Sony,IBM e Toshiba,nel novembre del 2004,hanno annunciato di aver realizzato la prima workstation basata sul Cell.
The trio described Cell as a 64-bit POWER-based "multi-core system" for computers and next-generation digital home appliances. Crucially, each core can run a single operating system, or run their own OS independently of the others.
The chip's makers note that Cell is not only a multi-core architecture - like the anticipated 'Antares' PowerPC 970MP - but multi-threaded too, though it's not yet clear whether support for multiple threads takes places within each core level, Hyper Threading-style, or by spreading threads across cores. IBM's POWER 5 architecture supports simultaneous multi-threading, so it seems likely Cell will too.
-I primi Cell verranno prodotti con la tecnologia dei 90 nm,per poi passare a quella dei 65 nm nel 2006.
Impiegherà la tecnologia SOI,come del resto farà Xbox2.
-Su PS3 verrà impiegata la tecnologia del "motion sensing technology"
Phil Harrison the Vice President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has revealed that Sony are investigating the use of motion sensing technology for the PS3. Sony has used the Eye Toy to test out this new area of gaming, which seems to have a huge potential. Based on the Eye Toys huge success, Sony hope to extrapolate eye movement and gesture recognition, more complicated finger movement, and the logical next step of that is to deduce from a person's facial expression and demeanour what their emotional state is," said Mr. Harrison.
In definitiva Sony avrebbe impiegato l'Eye Toy per studiare dei nuovi "concept" per il gameplay...nella PS3 questi nuovi tipi di "gameplay" verranno amplificati.
-RUMOR: Il Cell che verrà impiegato nella PS3 dovrebbe avere una frequenza di clock di 4,6 GHz.
...they will announce that the new processor will run at 4.6 gigahertz.IBM, Sony and Toshiba will present four technical papers next month at the International Solid State Circuits Conference to be held in San Francisco.
-L'architettura del Cell,in definitiva,dovrebbe essere spiegata all'ISSCC il 6 febbraio del 2005.
Sony, IBM and Toshiba have revealed that they will be formally explaining the Cell chip at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) on the 6th Feb 2005.
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