TECHNOLOGY - June 16, 1994
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Sony Unveils Chip for Video Game Machine: Sony Computer Entertainment, a unit of Sony Corp., and LSI Logic Corp. unveiled an advanced chip that will power Sony’s new video game player, the PlayStation. The PlayStation microchip contains advanced three-dimensional geometric graphics and high-resolution full-motion video. It is a 32-bit RISC (reduced instruction set computing) chip, which has architecture that reduces the complexity of the chip by using simpler instructions. The PlayStation, announced in May, is a CD-based home video game player. It will not be available in the United States until sometime next year. It will be shipped in Japan at the end of 1994. Sony said it expects the system to be priced at about $500.
