PlayStation 3 Back in the Headlines
SCE’s Chief Technical Officer Shinichi lets the cat out of the bag: Incredible PlayStation 3 development insight!
Some issues seem really reluctant to lie down and wait for the appropriate time to be raised. One such issue is Sony Computer Entertainment’s next home console release, dubbed by the industry at large (showing its usual flair for creativity) as the PlayStation 3.
This time, SCE’s Chief Technical Officer Shinichi Okamoto has made some comments that have cranked the rumour mills up to maximum.
"Moore's Law is too slow for us," Okamoto said, referring to the widely-held belief that semi-conductor power doubles every 18 months. "We can't wait 20 years to achieve a thousand-fold increase in PlayStation performance,” he said.
Okamoto said that Sony was looking into distributed computing to push back the boundaries for future PlayStation hardware development. Distributed computing is a method that spreads high-end computational tasks across many networked computers, to enable faster and more flexible number-crunching.
He also said that Sony has been discussing with IBM the prospect of using the company’s Big Blue grid computing methods, a form of distributed computing used to create IBM’s flagship machine.
Is presumed that as well as distributed computing being used for hardware development, SCE is looking to employ the same methods of power gaming in the home, with networked PS3’s sharing processor power, data and software.
Okamoto then mentioned that the recently released Linux kit for PlayStation 2 would form the backbone for most of the research, though he didn’t go into detail on this. Then, with a twinkle in his eye, said, “Maybe the PlayStation 6 or 7 will be based on biotechnology.”
Look out for some solid PlayStation 3 news coming straight from E3 in May.
This time, SCE’s Chief Technical Officer Shinichi Okamoto has made some comments that have cranked the rumour mills up to maximum.
"Moore's Law is too slow for us," Okamoto said, referring to the widely-held belief that semi-conductor power doubles every 18 months. "We can't wait 20 years to achieve a thousand-fold increase in PlayStation performance,” he said.
Okamoto said that Sony was looking into distributed computing to push back the boundaries for future PlayStation hardware development. Distributed computing is a method that spreads high-end computational tasks across many networked computers, to enable faster and more flexible number-crunching.
He also said that Sony has been discussing with IBM the prospect of using the company’s Big Blue grid computing methods, a form of distributed computing used to create IBM’s flagship machine.
Is presumed that as well as distributed computing being used for hardware development, SCE is looking to employ the same methods of power gaming in the home, with networked PS3’s sharing processor power, data and software.
Okamoto then mentioned that the recently released Linux kit for PlayStation 2 would form the backbone for most of the research, though he didn’t go into detail on this. Then, with a twinkle in his eye, said, “Maybe the PlayStation 6 or 7 will be based on biotechnology.”
Look out for some solid PlayStation 3 news coming straight from E3 in May.
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