Today Shin'ichi Okamoto, chief technical officer for Sony Computer Entertainment spoke at the Game Developers Conference and highlighted prospects for the next-generation Playstation - Playstation 3. Okamoto said research efforts for Playstation 3 are focusing on distributed computing, a method for spreading computational tasks across networked computers. He added that distributed computing appears to hold the most promise for dramatically boosting the performance of the next Playstation. Sony is plans for Playstation 3 to have 1,000 times the performance of Playstation 2.
"Moore's Law is too slow for us," Okamoto said, referring to the truism that semiconductor power doubles every 18 months. "We can't wait 20 years" to achieve a 1,000-fold increase in PlayStation performance, he said.
Thanks to CNET.
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