Speaking with Warren Communication News, William Zeittler, Senior Vice President of IBMs System & Technology Group said that yield learning on the new Cell processor that makes up the core of Sonys PlayStation 3 has been faster than on any chip weve done. Translation IBM is quickly learning how to produce more working chips per batch than any other chip before. Essentially what that means to us the consumer, the Manufacturing plant will be able to ship as many chips as needed, without having to worry about supply issues once the PS3 heads into full production. However, as we all know consoles are made up of more than processors, so supply issues could still arise from other components experiencing manufacturing issues, as we saw with the Xbox 360 launch. A great deal of the Xbox 360 shortage is due to the lack of available parts. No matter how fast they can assemble the consoles, if parts are not available, manufacturing will come to a hault Zeitles also mentioned that IBM was able to increase their production of Xbox 360 parts quickly as well which enforces the idea if there is a PS3 shortage, dont blame IBM. Now lets just hope the other 2,000 parts will be readily available. |
