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To: Alan Hume who wrote (16921)	3/2/1999 3:31:00 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

rmbs news ebns.com LSI Logic to make Direct RDRAM chip for next Sony PlayStation By Jack Robertson Electronic Buyers' News (03/02/99, 01:34:59 PM EDT) TOKYO — Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. said today that LSI Logic Corp. will produce a single-chip I/O processor and Toshiba Corp. will provide a MIPS CPU for Sony's PlayStation-II, the company's next generation electronic game system. Sony told the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco last month that PlayStation-II will use "a Rambus DRAM memory." Industry sources say a Direct Rambus DRAM chip produced by LSI Logic will be used in the system. Sony's rival, Nintendo, has used an earlier version of Rambus DRAM made by NEC Corp. in its game system for several years. LSI Logic (Milpitas, Calif.) makes the custom processor used in Sony's current PlayStation. The company's new system-on-a-chip for Sony will include a 32-bit customized MIPS microprocessor core, a USB controller, and an IEEE 1394 link and a mixed-signal PHY core. LSI will produce the new chip on its Generation 11 0.25-micron process technology. The chip will be backward compatible in order to process all applications that run on the current Sony PlayStation.