Target shipment of Sony PS3 may be halved
On the heels of yesterday’s announcement Sony and Matsushita, have suspended shipments of the blue laser diodes that drive both high-def disc formats, DigiTimes is reporting that Sony may be restating their 4 million unit estimate down to 2 million, thanks to troubles with Blu-ray diodes, their GPUs, and lousy Cell yields. According to sources in Taiwan’s game console manufacturing industry, Sony’s OEM makers in China and Japan are still preparing for volume production of the PS3 and there is a short supply of blue laser diodes, a key component of Blu-ray Disc (BD) pick-up heads, and cell processors
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