Sonys power hungry gaming machine is about to take a turn for the better. For those geeks who would know such things, the Sony Playstation 3 is the most power hungry of all the competing consoles. The chief reason for its power addiction is the chipset which was 90 nm. Sony plans to bring down the usage by almost 20% by going in for a 65 nm chipset.
Combined with a new cooling architecture, which replaces copper heatpipes with smaller aluminum plates, the new PS3 is expected to consume only 100 ?120 watts, down from 135 watts today. The initial PS3 with a 90 nm Cell processor was estimated to consume up to 180 watts in normal operation.
Changes like these are much needed to curb greenhouse emissions as well as ensure that gamers have a few spare dollars left to splurge on games instead of handing them over to power companies. Thanks Sony!