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To: Dealer who wrote (1073)9/13/2000 7:30:48 PM
From: Dealer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 65232
 
RMBS--Next generation RMBS and Sony PS2.....
by: jph_ma 9/13/00 7:08 pm


By Yoshiko Hara
EE Times
(09/13/00, 5:34 p.m. EST)

TOKYO — Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. has accelerated
its plans to roll out a high-end graphics computer based on its
Playstation game console technology. The company announced
plans this week to introduce a system called GScube next year
that will use 64 processor boards with Playstation 2 technology. ......"

eetimes.com

"The GScube's 128-bit EmotionEngine and Graphics Synthesizer with embedded DRAM
are improved versions of the components used in the Playstation2.

The GScube's EmotionEngine uses 2 Gbytes of direct Rambus DRAM as main memory,
while the Playstation2 has 32 Mbytes of RDRAM. The Graphics Synthesizer integrates a
32-Mbyte frame buffer memory on one chip, or eight times the 4 Mbytes of memory
found on the Graphics Synthesizer of the Playstation2......."

GScube and RDRAM ---what a couple!! Money in the bank!