SCEI Co-developes Emotion Engine CPU for Next-Gen PSX

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SCEI announces the co-development with Toshiba Corp. of the 128-bit CPU (“EE, or “Emotion Engine”) for use in the next-generation of PlayStation.

Sony Computer Entertainment announces that it has developed the Graphics Synthesiser for the next-generation PlayStation incorporating a massively parallel rendering engine that contains a 2,560 bit wide data bus that is 20 times the size of leading PC-based graphics accelerators.

Sony Computer Entertainment announces that it has developed the I/O Processor with LSI Logic Corporation for the next-generation PlayStation. By embedding this processor they have achieved 100% backward compatibility with the current PlayStation. In addition, the new I/O Processor supports IEEE 1394 and Universal Serial Bus (USB) which are the new standards for digital interconnectivity.
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