It’s not too hard to believe that Sony would have tinkered under the hood of the PS3 Slim and today we’ve learned that those assumptions are, in fact, true. The Slim now has a 45-nanometer Cell microprocessor, which was jointly developed by Sony, Toshiba and IBM.
Benefits of the new fangled chip based on IBM’s Power architecture promises improved performance with less power being drawn on the whole. And we all know how much of a power hog the last gen PS3 was/is. An improved Nvidia graphics processor is also on board, but neither Sony nor Nvidia have revealed any details on the new chip.
via Yahoo Tech
The down side is that they apprently made it incompatible with Linux (wankers). Although it would be cheery and not totally unexpected news if the Penguinite Boffins crack this nut too.
Yeah, we mentioned that yesterday in our poll and if the Penguins didn’t crack it, I’d be surprised.
The original PS3 was never hacked/cracked, what makes you think they will hack this so quickly?
Linux is nice, but pretty underpowered on the PS3, its not really a system everybody is racing to install Linux on.
And these people will havent managed to get GPU support back in for the FAT Ps3s, I don’t see how you expect them to hack it anytime soon.
I am surprised that NOBODY has managed to hack the PS3 yet however.
I’m hoping the slim has the 45nm graphics chip but I have a feeling it is the 65nm. If it is 65nm then the upside is we will see even a cooler slim with 45nm gpu and cpu in the near future. My 60 gig beast from dec 2006 is 90nm cpu and gpu and it really pumps out the heat and even dims the lights when I power it on.