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January 31, 2000

Emotion Engine: Best Embedded Processor
Posted by @ 12:53 PM, EST
Some parts of today’s press release:

Cahner's MicroDesign Resources, publisher of Microprocessor Report, presented Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Toshiba Corp. the honored 1999 Analyst's Choice Award for the Best Embedded Processor at this year's "Processing The Future 2000" dinner event held on Jan, 27 in Santa Clara, Calif

The 300MHz 128-bit Emotion Engine, developed jointly by SCE and Toshiba Corp., uses 0.18-micron process and has over 13 million transistors, which is equivalent to today's complex desktop PC microprocessors.
The Emotion Engine serves as the core CPU for Sony's Playstation2, allowing the advanced game system to handle 6.2 GFLOPS at peak floating performance and able to transform 66 Mpolygons per second (perspective transformation), to provide a level of graphics performance not seen even in the most powerful PCs.

"We are honored to receive this prestigious recognition of Toshiba's system level integration (SLI) capabilities," said Peter Richmond, director of System IC business development at Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. "The Emotion Engine is an excellent example of Toshiba's world-class expertise in developing complex SLI devices that include embedded high-performance RISC processor and memory cores and other logic."



Name:SOUTHCYPRUS
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Comment: I see I have accidentally said 100X performance?
Well here's how it truely goes.....1st installment of the chips 10X performance,
2nd 100X, and 3rd 1000X within a span of 2 to 3years. HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVERYBODY!


Name:Seishin
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Comment: Why is it when people are ignorant and lie, they have to lie so exorbantly. 50 Gflops my ass, the most powerful supercomputer cant do over 20 Gflops, so wow you are a dork.


Name:Peter Fitzgerald
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Comment: Actually, the PSX3 is going to be 1000 times as powerful as the psx2 according to sony. By the way, graphics cards aren't what do GFLOPS, spaz


Name:SOUTHCYPRUS
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Comment: Well hello there little Jimmy.
It seems as though we have a playstation critic in tha house.

Let me just remind u where the SONY corp. is headed buster.
Digital entertainment, broadband networking, and clear domination in the micro
processing world, are each top priorities on their list(s).
Not to mention a coming soon to a theatre near you EE3 & GS3 turning your Playstation 2, to the ALL MIGHTY PSX3! with 100x performance of the one to be
released on March 4/2000.
In game graphics will be almost the spitting image of real life to say the least. The AI will not be matched. And pretty soon we'll have the voice recognition head sets allowing us to interact with our environments, and the
artaficial people around us.
That's right. The computer will be capable of carrying conversations with you
showing emotion & humen behavour. THIS IS INDEED THE REVOLUTION!
ALL HAIL SONY LIL JIMMY, U CAN EVEN PLAY YOUR DVD DEBBY DOES DALLAS FOR U KNOW,
THOSE RAINY DAYS!


Name:Jim
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Comment: To those interested in numbers, NVidia's first geometry processing chipset, the GeForce, claims to offer 50 GFLOPS of number crunching wonder.


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