Sony PlayStation^®3 Slim

The PlayStation^®3 Slim represents the next step in the development of the PS3™ platform delivering the ultimate gaming, music, and movie watching experience. Powered by the revolutionary Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell BE™) processor and the XDR™ memory architecture, the PS3 Slim packs the power of a supercomputer for less than the price of an entry-level PC.

The Cell BE is a multi-core processor employing a PowerPC processor element (PPE) and seven synergistic processor elements (SPE) to provide supercomputer capability in a home computer entertainment system. The Cell BE is capable of 218GFlops performance. The XDR memory controller interface (XIO) on the Cell BE is 72 bits-wide and is capable of operating at 3.2Gbps data rates providing 25.6GB/s of total memory bandwidth. Learn more about the XDR memory architecture.

Rambus' FlexIO processor bus provides the high-bandwidth connectivity between the Cell BE and the RSX graphics processor and south bridge chip providing an aggregate bandwidth of 40GB/s. The PlayStation 3's breathtaking graphics performance, including high definition (HD) 1080p video output, is delivered by the RSX Reality Synthesizer. Meanwhile, the south bridge chip is responsible for interface and control of PlayStation 3's rich provisioning of storage and communications technologies including Blu-ray™ Disc player, built-in hard drive, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi®, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0 and Bluetooth® 2.0. Learn more about the FlexIO processor bus.

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