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Sony Not 90nm Capable?

http://www.reed-electronics.com/semiconductor/article/CA378149?spacedesc=news
Indeed, Sony has made several 90nm announcements in the last 12 months and had planned for PSX to exemplify its strategy to combine the company's game and electronic technologies. PSX had been -- and still is, according to SI -- promoted as the first Sony system based on the EE+GS@90nm processor, which combines the PlayStation 2's Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer chips onto a single die.

SI's claims are based on it removing the EE+GS@90nm chip from the PSX, model DESR-5000, and determining it to be 130nm technology with a die size of 90mm². This is in contrast to Sony's claims of 90nm technology and an associated die size of 86mm² for the PSX, the firm said.

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