El chip lo desarrolla IBM con un pequeña aportacion de Toshiba (que fue quien hizo el emotion engine). El chip es un procesador que tambien hace las funciones graficas:-) . Aqui estan las especificaciones:
Information on a forthcoming processor that will likely be the next Graphics Synthesizer (GS)—which may be targeted for use in the as-yet-unannounced PlayStation 3—was revealed at this week’s International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, according to Electronic Engineering Times magazine. The presentation was given by Aurangzeb Khan, vice president of Simplex Solution Inc., the company contracted by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. to design and create the GS chips.
According to the article, the chip will offer what’s said to be a revolutionary 256Mbit of on-chip DRAM memory—eight times more than the GS in the PlayStation 2—as well as 2,000 internal buses for data flow, to enable a bandwidth of about 48GB per second. The new GS is also said to offer graphic output of 75 million polygons per second, and have a pixel fill rate between 1.2 and 2.6 gigapixels per second, which is performance comparable to the current GS.
The new GS will have a .18-micron die size, which requires less power and enables a higher number of transistors on the chip; the upgraded version will be larger in size than the current .25-micron die GS—21.7 x 21.3 square millimeters for the new chip compared to 16.8 x 16.8 square millimeters for the present GS—and have 287.5 million transistors, versus the current chip’s 42.7 million transistors.
While no plans for the chip were revealed, the new processor could result in an upgraded PS2 or be at the heart of a PlayStation 3 release. Sony hasn’t given up many details, but Sony Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi previously offered a tentative roadmap in late 1999 that indicated that a PS3 could be released as soon as 2002"
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