Love to buy stuff for what its worth. And the PS3 is well worth its price. Sony just announced losing over USD$3 billion on production of PS3!
So if you cheapskates who bought it cheap..even more worth it. Got mine early at S$799 with no discounts and no white color!!
The PS3 main components consists of its RSX Cell chip (a 90nm IBM processor),and Blu Ray Drive which initial cost is about USD$100 each. 4 x Elpida XDR DRAM (Elpida is Hitachi spin off whereas the XDR technology is a better product from the RDRAM days from Rambus technology). Not sure about the DRAM prices but going at a whoppping 8Gb per sec it has enough bandwidth to support the 3-D graphics, superb digital imaging and advanced multimedia for the PS3 (>4 times the peak bandwidth of DDR2 RAMs)
Coming from a semiconductor engineering background, Sony invested USD$1.83 billion into developing and producing the RSX Cell chip alone.
Anyway support my ricebowl industry, go grab a PS3 and hopefully Sony recovers from the games/movie revenue as the pirates have not moved into this region yet.
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