Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : THQ,Inc. (THQI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (10119)	3/2/1999 7:47:00 PM
From: rogermci®	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14266

$420 not affordable for a lot of people...transition will take longer than people think meaning the PSX 1 cycle will last longer. I don't think the FY2000 revenues will be affected as much as some of the bears project...remember, that's what they're hanging their hats on. I didn't think twice about upgrading to N64 from Super Nintendo for the kids because price difference wasn't that great. But that will be a hell of a lot of carwashes for PSX 2. I ain't buying it right away, I can assure you of that. roger

To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (10119)	3/3/1999 1:00:00 PM
From: Jim Oravetz	Respond to of 14266

++ OT - More Playstation II background verbage ++ 3/2/99 LSI Logic to make I/O processor chip for next Sony PlayStation By Jack Robertson TOKYO -- Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. here 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. LSI Logic, of 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 Universal Serial Bus (USB) controller, and an IEEE 1394 link with a mixed-signal PHY (physical-layer) core. LSI Logic will produce the new chip on its 0.25-micron (Generation 11) process technology. The chip will be backward-compatible in order to process all applications that run on the current Sony PlayStation. Sony told the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco last month that PlayStation-II will use "a Rambus DRAM memory." Subodh Toprani, Rambus' vice president of marketing, said that "32-megabytes of Direct Rambus memory will be used in each Sony player." Each will use either four 64-megabit Direct RDRAM chips or two 128-mbit chips, he added. Sony's rival, Nintendo, has used an earlier version of Rambus DRAM made by NEC Corp. in its game system for several years. from the WSJ($) site: Sony to Launch New PlayStation In Japan During the Fiscal Year By JAMES PARADISE Dow Jones Newswires TOKYO -- Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. said it plans to launch its next-generation PlayStation console in Japan during the fiscal year starting April, introducing what analysts said will be a major threat to its competitors, Nintendo Co. and Sega Enterprises. The new PlayStation will have a 128-bit central processing unit co-developed with Toshiba Corp. and is scheduled for overseas release in the third quarter of 2000. At a meeting to announce the technical specifications of the product, Sony Corp. President Nobuyuki Idei said, "I believe the next-generation PlayStation will become one of the pillars of Sony's business." Sony Computer Entertainment is equally owned by Sony Corp. and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. Analysts said Sony Computer has built a strong position with the huge user base for its 32-bit PlayStation machine, having shipped 50 million units world-wide since its launch in Japan in December 1994. "We can expect those users to show interest in the new machine," said Naoko Ito, an analyst at Goldman Sachs (Japan). Analysts also said that the technical specifications of the new machine were impressive and would put Sony in a formidable position in relation to Nintendo's Nintendo 64 and Sega's Dreamcast, which went on sale in Japan in November. Sony Computer said the new PlayStation, which it hasn't yet named, would offer "unparalleled graphic quality and detail," and its CPU would have "data-processing capabilities far exceeding those of today's state-of-the-art PCs." The new machine also will have backward compatibility with the 32-bit PlayStation using a processor developed with LSI Logic Corp. Other features include CD-ROM and DVD-ROM disk devices. Ken Kutaragi, executive vice president of Sony Computer, said that development costs for the hardware were between $250 million and $300 million, including $100 million for the CPU chip. He didn't say when Sony hoped to make a profit from the new machine.