Flower

Flowers within art are also representative of the female genitalia, as seen in the works of artists such as Georgia O'Keefe, Imogene Cunningham, and Judy Chicago.
. Some of the more common examples include:.
. The practice of assigning meanings to flowers is known as floriography. This means that the PS3 will not be able to use PS1 and PS2 memory cards; however, the Memory Stick will be able to store save games for both PS1 and PS2 games, unlike the PS2's memory card. Many flowers have important symbolic meanings in Western culture. [18] Instead it was announced that the PS3 will only use the Sony Memory Stick to save games via MagicGate.

To get flowers that are out of season in their country, florists contact wholesalers who have direct connections with growers in other countries to provide those flowers. For example, memory cards for PlayStation and PlayStation 2 will not work on the PlayStation 3 hardware. Florists depend on an entire network of commercial growers and shippers to support this trade. The PS3 will not be backward-compatible with some of the hardware peripherals of the PS2. Around the world, florists sell flowers for a wide range of events and functions that, cumulatively, encompass one's lifetime:. However, with the powers of [a machine like] the PS3, some parts can be handled by hardware, and some parts by software.". In modern times, people have sought ways to cultivate, buy, wear, or just be around flowers and blooming plants, partly because of their agreeable smell. There are things that will be required by hardware.

The Greek goddess of spring, flowers and nature is Chloris. There are times when games pass through our tests, but are written in ways that make us say, 'What in the world is this code?!' We need to support backward compatibility towards those kinds of games as well, so trying to create compatibility by software alone is difficult. The Roman goddess of flowers, gardens, and the season of Spring is Flora. For example, there are cases where their games run, but not according to the console's specifications. Ah, Sun-flower weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the Sun,
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller's journey is done:

Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my Sun-flower wishes to go. "Third-party developers sometimes do things that are unimaginable. Famous examples include and William Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and William Blake's Ah! Sun-Flower:. In a recent interview Ken Kutaragi stated that backward compatibility will be achieved through a combination of hardware and software.

The great variety of delicate and beautiful flowers has inspired the works of many poets, especially from the Romantic era. Compatibility with PS2 online games and games designed for the hard drive have not been elaborated upon. Main and related articles at: Gardening, Horticulture, List of flowers, and Floristry. It still is not known how Sony has achieved this (although Sony had developed a single-chip PS2 CPU/GPU solution, used in newer revisions of the "slim" PS2). Instead the allergen is usually the pollen of the contemporary bloom of anemophilous ragweed (Ambrosia) which can drift for many kilometers. The PlayStation 3 will be compatible "on the chip" with PlayStation 2 and PlayStation games, without emulation. For example the showy and entomophilous goldenrod (Solidago) is frequently blamed for respiratory allergies, of which it is innocent, since its pollen cannot be airborne. [17].

There is much confusion about the role of flowers in allergies. The Blu-Ray region code will be different from DVD region code. Honeybees and bumblebees actively gather anemophilous corn (maize) pollen, though it is of little value to them. Blu-Ray movies played on the PS3 will use a region code. Whereas the pollen of entomophilous flowers tends to be large grained, sticky, and contain significant protein (another "reward" for pollinators), Anemophilous flower pollen is usually small grained, very light, and of little nutritional value to insects, though it may still be gathered, in times of dearth. Sony's decision to stop region coding means consumers will be able to purchase PS3 games from anywhere in the world, which may turn out to be significantly cheaper than purchasing them exclusively from their home territory, or importing the system from Japan on launch. Wind pollinated flowers are referred to as anemophilous. According to Ephraim, “If you look at the fact that [the PlayStation 3] will support high-definition TV, which will be a global standard, there’s a good likelihood that it will be global region, as for example we’ve done with the PSP [PlayStation Portable].”.

Other flowers are pollinated by the wind, and the flowers of these species (for example, grasses) have no need to attract pollinators and therefore tend not to be "showy". The PS3’s support for HDTV standards was cited as one of the key reasons the company has stopped the practice of region coding. Some plants, such as Rafflesia, the titan arum, and the North American pawpaw (Asimina triloba) are pollinated by flies, so produce a scent imitating rotting meat. Unlike its predecessors, the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2, the PS3 is tipped to allow gaming and movie playback from downloads or discs bought in any part of the world, rather than being limited to playing discs only from a specific region. Flower scent is not always pleasant to our sense of smell. PlayStation 3 games are unlikely to be region coded, according to Sony’s Australian managing director, Michael Ephraim. In gathering nectar from many flowers of the same species, the pollinators transfer pollen between all of the flowers it visits. [16].

The arrangement of the stamens ensures that pollen grains are transferred to the bodies of the pollinator. However, the March 2006 issue of PSM magazine reports that Sony intends to launch an online service with the PS3 designed to compete with Microsoft's Xbox Live. In any case, pollinators are attracted to the plant, perhaps in search of nectar, which they eat. It also means that there will be different user interfaces for each game depending on the developer. Flowers also attract pollinators by scent. While this will give games publishers greater freedom in terms of what they are able to offer online, some say it may make it more difficult for Sony to control the quality of the online experience. Some flowers have patterns, called nectar guides, that are evident in the ultraviolet range, visible to bees but not to humans. Instead, online services for PS3 games will be decentralized and left up to individual game publishers.

Bees and birds are common pollinators: both have color vision, thus selecting for "colorful" flowers. In an issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine, Sony denied rumors that it would be implementing a centralized online service similar to Microsoft’s Xbox Live. Flowers commonly have glands called nectaries on their various parts that attract these animals. Sony has stated that the online service for the PlayStation 3 will use the same non-unified architecture as that of the PlayStation 2. Flowers that are insect pollinated are called entomophilous (literally "insect loving"). The games are as follows: Fatal Inertia(Koei), Mahjong Taikai(Koei), Ni-Oh(Koei), Shin Ten Makai VI(Idea Factory) Vampire's Rain(AQ Interactive), Sonic the Hedgehog(Sega), Unnamed RPG(Success), Hitsuji Mura(Success). Many flowers in nature have evolved to attract animals to pollinate the flower, the movements of the pollinating agent contributing to the opportunity for genetic recombinations within a dispersed plant population. But as always, this could be subject to change (although anymore being added on is hopeful at best).

The period of time during which this process can take place (the flower is fully expanded and functional) is called anthesis. Unfortunately, the total is 8. Others rely on animals (especially insects) to accomplish this feat. In a recent issue of Famitsu (Date of edit 29/01/06), A list of available games for the PS3 for 2006 have been released. Many flowers are dependent upon the wind to move pollen between flowers of the same species. Sony is providing developers with Linux toolchains where SN Systems will provide more customer-oriented Linux tools at an additional cost. The process is termed pollination. In addition, Sony recently purchased SN Systems, a former provider of Microsoft Windows based development tools for a variety of console platforms including the PlayStation 2, GameCube, PSP and Nintendo DS to create additional Linux development tools.

The function of a flower is to mediate the union of male and female gametes. The list of standards they are reported to be considering includes:. Several other symbols are used that will have to await drawings to illustrate here (see [1]). Sublicensed technologies includes:. A floral formula would appear something like this:. The list of open standards includes:. x - to represent a "variable number"
∞ - to represent "many"
. The PlayStation 3, unlike the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 systems, is based on publicly-available application programming interfaces.

Ca⁵ = 5 sepals)
Co = corolla (petal whorl; e.g., Co^3(x) = petals some multiple of three )
    Z = add if zygomorphic (e.g., CoZ⁶ = zygomorphic with 6 petals)
A = androecium (whorl of stamens; e.g., A^∞ = many stamens)
G = gynoecium (carpel or carpels; e.g., G¹ = monocarpous)
. Sony has selected several technologies and arranged several sublicensing agreements to create the software development kit for developers. Ca = calyx (sepal whorl; e.g. However, Epic stated in response that they are working to release the PC version first and that the PS3 version has no priority for release over the PC version. The following representations are used:. In the January issue of the same publication, it was stated that Epic Games is working hard to get Unreal Tournament 2007 ready for the proposed launch in Spring 2006. Typically, a general formula will be used to represent the flower structure of a plant family rather than a particular species. In the November issue of PSM Magazine, SCEA Chief Operating Officer Jack Tretton mentioned both Lair and Warhawk as launch titles, although Sony would not expand further on his comments.

A floral formula is a way to represent the structure of a flower using specific letters, numbers, and symbols. At this time, only three games have been mentioned as PS3 launch titles: Lair from Factor 5, Warhawk from Incognito Entertainment, and Unreal Tournament 2007 from Epic Games. Each small flower may be anatomically as described above. One of the most, if not the most anticipated PS3 game up to this point is Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, which had its first trailer shown at the Tokyo Game Show 2005 event. In botanical terminology, a single daisy or sunflower for example, is not a flower but a flower head—an inflorescence comprised of numerous small flowers (sometimes called florets). Controversial games developers Rockstar North have also hinted that they are planning the provisionally named Grand Theft Auto 4, primarily for the PS3. In this sense, care must be exercised in considering what is a flower. Since they aren't working on a remake then this will most likely be Final Fantasy XIII.

In those species that have more than one flower on an axis, the collection of flowers is termed an inflorescence. Square Enix is however listed for a Final Fantasy game along with 70 other Japanese developers during TGS 2005. Additional discussions on floral modifications from the basic plan are presented in the articles on each of the basic parts of the flower. Also shown at E3 was a video of Final Fantasy VII 's opening sequence remade in PlayStation 3 graphics, at the time recent to the show, Square Enix stated no plans for a remake. The latter flower types, which have chemical barriers to their own pollen, are referred to as self-sterile or self-incompatible (see also: Plant sexuality). In the E3 2005 Press Conference, Sony showed some pre-rendered and some real-time videos of games in development with the codenames Eyedentify, Vision Gran Turismo and MotorStorm. Unisexual male and female flowers on the same plant may not appear at the same time, or pollen from the same plant may be incapable of fertilizing its ovules. Some anticipated ones include Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Killzone PS3, Resident Evil 5, Devil May Cry 4, Shin Megami Tensei, Armored Core 4 , Unreal Tournament 2007 and Tekken 6.

Conversely, many species of plants have ways of preventing self-fertilization. Most developers have already announced games for the PS3. The extreme case of self-fertilization occurs in flowers that always self-fertilize, such as the common dandelion. The actual number in development, though undeniably fewer, should still be very high. Some flowers with both stamens and a pistil are capable of self-fertilization, which does increase the chance of producing seeds but limits genetic variation. As of October 2005, there are already over 150 PS3 games announced by multiple developers and publishers, like SCEA, Electronic Arts, Konami, Namco, Capcom, Square Enix and many others. However, where unisexual male and female flowers appear on the same plant, the species is considered monoecious. According to DevStation Conference, the PS3 will use the Cross Media Bar already used in the PlayStation Portable and PSX devices.

In the latter case, if an individual plant is either male or female the species is regarded as dioecious. Sony has appealed this decision and will be able to sell its products while the case is under appeal. However, in some species of plants the flowers are imperfect or unisexual: having only either male (stamens) or female (pistil) parts. Sony lost, and has been required to pay considerable royalties to Immersion and suspend the sale of the controllers, including all PlayStation and PlayStation 2 console packages containing them. These flowers are described by botanists as being perfect, bisexual, or hermaphrodite. While Microsoft settled out of court, Sony continued to defend the case. In the majority of species, individual flowers have both pistils and stamens as described above. In March 2005, Sony and Microsoft were sued by force-feedback company Immersion for patent infringement for the use of vibration functions in their controllers.

The number of carpels in a compound pistil may be only two, or otherwise not related to the above generalization for monocots and dicots. Also possibly complicating the controller design is Sony's ongoing legal battle with Immersion Corporation of San Jose. For example, the two subclasses of flowering plants may be distinguished by the number of floral organs in each whorl: dicotyledons typically having 4 or 5 organs (or a multiple of 4 or 5) in each whorl and monocotyledons having three or some multiple of three. Their downplays concerning a rumor suggesting Sony would unveil a revamped PS3 controller at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2006 were sound, as the controller was not shown in any form during the event. These modifications have significance in the evolution of flowering plants and are used extensively by botanists to establish relationships among plant species. Though Sony itself had previously admitted at this past E3 that the controller design for their PlayStation 3 console was not finalized, GameSpot believes any purported changes will not be substantial. Although the floral structure described above is considered the "typical" structural plan, plant species show a wide variety of modifications from this plan. The PS3's specifications, and E3 display units, don't support DualShock controller ports.

The four main parts or whorls (starting from the base of the flower or lowest node and working upwards) are as follows:. The number of ports to support such backward compatibility would most likely be limited to one, although this is also an unconfirmed rumour. The parts of a flower are arranged in whorls on the torus. Unconfirmed reports suggest that the PS3 may in fact support the older DualShock 2 controllers, however, this is thought to be true due to the PlayStation 3 striving to attain backwards compatibility. The stem is called a pedicel, the end of which is the torus or receptacle. [12]. In essence, a flower structure forms on a modified shoot or axis with an apical meristem that does not grow continuously (growth is determinate). Some people pointed that the controller bears a similar resemblance to the old Alps Interactive 3rd party controller which was originally made for the PlayStation.

A flower is regarded as a modified stem (Eames, 1961) with shortened internodes and bearing, at its nodes, structures that may be highly modified leaves. ^[11] In an interview with Edge, SCEE's Chris Deering echoed these statements by describing the E3 controller as "just a design study". Flowering plants are heterosporangiate (producing two types of reproductive spores) and the pollen (male spores) and ovules (female spores) are produced in different organs, but these are together in a bisporangiate strobilus that is the typical flower. According to the Japanese video game publication Famitsu, Sony Computer Entertainment chief technical officer Masayuki Chatani said that the controller design is a "prototype, so there could be some small adjustments.". . However, some suggest that the controller, while a little un-traditional in contrast to the DualShock and DualShock 2 controllers, might provide adequate comfort for extended hours of play. After fertilization, portions of the flower develop into a fruit containing the seeds. The design of the controller has been likened to a boomerang or a banana by many observers (or even less flattering likenesses).

For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and serve as the primary means by which individuals of a species are dispersed across the landscape. SCEI's press release indicates that controller connectivity to the PlayStation 3 can be provided via:. The flower structure contains the plant's reproductive organs, and its function is to produce seeds through sexual reproduction. Finally, whether the PS3's advantage in floating-point performance will be readily apparent in games depends entirely on whether developers are able to effectively make use of the system's unique architecture. A flower (<Old French flo(u)r<Latin florem<flos), also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). Floating point calculations are very important for graphics, multimedia, and game physics, but considerably less important for other tasks like artificial intelligence. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York. It should also be noted that floating-point performance is a single-dimensional metric for comparing computers, and that many other considerations (including integer performance, memory size and bandwidth, etc.) determine the "overall" performance of a computer system.

Morphology of the Angiosperms. The floating-point capacity of the PS3 will significantly exceed that of the XBox 360, although it should be noted that Microsoft's console, due to its 3 symmetric fully featured processor cores (which are very similar to the Cell's PPE), may fare better on dynamically branching code, like that used for artificial intelligence. 1961. It should be noted that this figure is an estimate based on ideal, 100% efficient operation of the processor. J. The seven SPEs in the PS3, in addition to the VMX unit in the PPE, would yield a total combined single-precision floating point performance of 218 GFLOPS (the same figure quoted by Sony). Eames, A. According to an in-depth report compiled by IBM, the theoretical peak performance of a single SPE is 25.6 GFLOPS.

Daisies are a symbol of innocence. Additionally, programmers may find it difficult, initially, to optimize their game engines to make the best use of the highly parallel architectures of both systems, further reducing real-world performance. It is also assosiated with stars (sun) and its petals blooming/shining. Inevitably, real-world performance for both systems will be lower. Irises/Lily are used in burials as a symbol refering to "resurection/life". The performance statistics given for the PS3 and XBox 360 in Sony's presentation were based on the theoretical maximum performance of the systems. In the UK, Australia and Canada, red poppies are worn to commemorate soldiers who have died in times of war. It was unclear how these numbers were exactly calculated, possibly based on addition of the floating point capabilities of the processing units in the Cell CPU and those of the RSX GPU.

Poppies are a symbol of consolation in time of death. The figures are likely rounded estimations. Red roses are given as a symbol of love, beauty, and passion. In their official press release, the same statistic regarding the PS3 as a whole was reported to be over 2.1 TFLOPS. For funeral flowers and flowers for the grieving. The presentation shows that one PS3 Cell CPU alone is capable of 218 GFLOPS, compared to the Xbox 360's Xenon CPU's 115 GFLOPS. As a gift of remembrance for bon voyage parties, welcome home parties, and "thinking of you" gifts. In a slide show at their E3 conference, Sony presented the "CPU floating point capability" of the PlayStation 3's Cell CPU, and compared it to other CPUs.

As brightening decorations within the home. This gives the RSX an effective 48GB/s when sending data to/from GPU and RAM. For wedding flowers for the bridal party, and decorations for the hall. Since the RSX is connected to the XDR DRAM and GDDR3 RAM similar to a Turbo Cached GPU it can access both memory locations at the exact same time. As a corsage or boutonniere to be worn at social functions or for holidays. Nvidia 7800 GTX 512 MB was released a couple of months after this statement so it's believed to be a comparison between the RSX and the 7800 GTX 256 MB not the 7800 GTX 512 MB which is 30% faster. For new births or Christenings Lilium hybrid "Stargazer" is extremely fragrant. . An Nvidia spokesperson was quoted in "Playstation Magazine" that the RSX shares a lot of inner workings with Nvidia 7800 which is based on G70 architecture.

The supportive stalk, the style becomes the pathway for pollen tubes to grow from pollen grains adhering to the stigma, to the ovules, carrying the reproductive material. Clockspeed does not however indicate the performance of the GPU as ATI X1800 is also 20% faster than Nvidia 7800 but has similiar game performance. The sticky tip of the pistil, the stigma, is the receptor of pollen. This places the clockspeed for both the 7800 GTX 512 and the RSX at approximately 28% faster than the 256 MB 7800 GTX. A pistil may consist of a number of carpels merged together, in which case there is only one pistil to each flower, or of a single individual carpel (the flower is then called apocarpous). Since the G70 is also capable of carrying out 136 shader operations per clock, the RSX is expected to feature the same number of parallel pixel and vertex shader pipelines as the G70 (NVidia's top-of-the-line GeForce 7800 GTX 512 currently contains 24 pixel and 8 vertex pipelines), and clocked similarly to Nvidia's highest end PC GPU based on G70 (with speculation that the RSX chip will be reworked using the new G71 architecture topping 650-700 MHz) (again, the 7800 GTX 512 is clocked at 550 MHz, which is equivalent to the 550 MHz announced for the RSX). The female reproductive organ is the carpel: this contains an ovary with ovules (female gametes). Nvidia has stated that the RSX will have a lot in common with the G70 architecture used in NVidia's GeForce 7 Series GPUs which were introduced in June of 2005.

gynoecium (from Greek gynaikos oikia: woman's house) – one or more pistils. NVidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang stated during Sony's pre-show press conference at E3 2005 that the RSX will be more powerful than two GeForce 6800 Ultra video cards combined. Pollen contains the male gametes. Custom "RSX" or "Reality Synthesizer" design co-developed by NVIDIA and Sony:. androecium (from Greek andros oikia: man's house) – one or two whorls of stamens, each a filament topped by an anther where pollen is produced. The 8th SPE is there for redundancy: if one of the other 7 are defective the 8th SPE will activate and stand in for the defective part. corolla – the whorl of petals, which are usually thin, soft and colored to attract insects that help the process of pollination. Only 7, however, are active.

calyx – the outer whorl of sepals; typically these are green, but are petal-like in some species. 3.2 GHz Cell processor with 8 Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). ^[8]. According to a press release by Sony at the May 16, 2005 E3 Conference, the specifications of the PlayStation 3 are as follows. Please see the section entitled overall floating-point capability for more details on this.

Real-world performance for both systems will naturally be less, and the specifications of the PS3 may undergo major changes before the system is launched. These comparisons are based on estimates of theoretical maximum performance. The amount of completely programmable floating point capacity afforded by the Cell microprocessor is higher than the Xbox 360's CPU, while the floating-point performance of the two systems' GPUs, which are designed specifically for graphics rendering tasks, are somewhat closer to parity. This comparison is based on the theoretical combined floating point capacity of the Cell microprocessor and the RSX GPU in the PS3 compared to the combined capacity of the Xenon CPU and Xenos GPU in the Xbox 360.

A simple comparison of the system architectures appears to indicate that the floating point capability of the PS3 is estimated to be greater than that of the Xbox 360. The current nature of pricing in the video game industry is to sell the hardware at a loss, at least initially, and then recoup the losses from game sales and developer licensing. Although manufacturing costs for Blu-Ray and the cell are unknown, it is safe to say like most new systems, they will lose money from the first year. This means that buyers should be able to purchase a PlayStation 3 at a lower price than its actual manufacturing cost.

$494) to make, not including labor, and they expect Sony to sell the Playstation 3 for less than its manufacturing cost. Merrill Lynch Japan estimates the PS3 manufacturing costs at 54,000 yen (U.S. An Inquirer article details internal Sony development: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28879. It is likely that standalone players will be released prior to PS3.

Sony Blu-Ray standalone players are to be released early summer^[7]. Sony office press releases indicate a 2006^[6] launch. 12,500 for the Super Famicom). In the same magazine, Ken Kutaragi was interviewed, and expressed little concern over the PS3's possibly high launch price, believing that customers would be willing to pay extra for a superior product, as they had in the past for the original PlayStation (¥39,800 vs.

In contrast Kazuo Hirai, president of Sony Computer Entertainment America, says the PS3 will not be expensive and that it will be competitively priced against the Xbox 360.^[5]. So we're going to have to do our best [in containing the price]". "But we're aiming for consumers throughout the world. I think everyone can still buy it if they wanted to," said Kutaragi to a mostly Japanese crowd.

The system's retail price is not known.^[3][4] Sony Computer Entertainment president and "father of the PlayStation" Ken Kutaragi points out "It'll be expensive" and "I'm aware that with all these technologies, the PS3 can't be offered at a price that's targeted towards households. A functional version of the console was not at E3 or the Tokyo Game Show in September 2005, although some demonstrations were held on devkits and videos of soon-to-be released games created to run on systems with the same specs as the PS3 were presented, such as Metal Gear Solid 4 and Killzone 3. The PS3 was officially unveiled on May 16, 2005 by Sony during the E3 conference, where the console was first shown to the public. .

At the moment, little more is known in public about the PS3 apart from its hardware specifications and reports that it will be based on open APIs for game development. Sony has announced that the PS3 will be backward compatible with earlier PS1 and PS2 games. Specifically, Sony representatives have informed video game store clerks to expect a North American shipment in Summer 2006, more narrowly defined as "somewhere between June and September." It is the successor to the PlayStation 2 and will mainly compete against the Nintendo Revolution and Xbox 360. The PlayStation 3 is slated for release this year^[2].

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) (Japanese: プレイステーション3) is Sony's Seventh generation era video game console in the market-leading PlayStation series. ^[15]. IPv6, the next generation of the Internet Protocol. Kynogon's Kynapse 4.0 (PDF) "large scale A.I.".

that aims to produce high-quality virtual foliage in real time. SpeedTree RT, a programming package produced by Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. Cg, Nvidia's C-like shading language. Alias Systems Corporation's 3D graphics programs [14].

Pixelux's Game Asset Synthesis Technology [13], a toolkit for advanced procedural synthesis. Havok's physics and animation engines. Epic's Unreal engine 3.0 framework. Ageia's PhysX SDK, NovodeX.

OpenVG, for hardware-accelerated 2D vector graphics. OpenMAX, a collection of fast, cross-platform tools for general "media acceleration," such as matrix calculations. OpenGL ES 2.0, the embedded version of the popular OpenGL graphics API. COLLADA, an open, XML-based file format for 3D models.

The Ability to Have 7 Controllers at Once. Parental Controls. Hub/Home Ethernet Gaming Network. Simultaneous World Wide Web access and gameplay.

MP3 and ATRAC download and playback. Digital photograph display (JPEG). EyeToy virtual object manipulation. EyeToy voice command recognition.

EyeToy interactive reality game. High-definition IP video conferencing. Two simultaneous High-definition television streams for use on a title screen for a HD Blu-ray Movie. The ability for the PlayStation Portable to connect to the PlayStation 3 as a video-enabled controller.

Bluetooth 2.0 (up to 7 controllers). USB 2.0 (wired). TCP/IP networking (wired ethernet). Integrated for mesh networking and connectivity with the PlayStation Portable.

802.11g Wi-Fi. USB 2.0 (four front and two rear ports). Bluetooth 2.0. IEEE 802.11g Wi-Fi.

Three Gigabit Ethernet ports (Sony has indicated that because of cost reduction there is a possibility that the PlayStation 3 may act only as an accessory interface and hub and perhaps not as a router, as originally planned.)^[10]. 32 cm (L) x 24 cm (W) x 8 cm (H)^[9]. SD/MMC slot. CompactFlash Type I and II slot.

Memory Stick standard/Duo and standard/mini slots. Optional but not required for most games. Detachable 2.5" hard drive with Linux pre-installed. CD: PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer) SACD HD.

DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW. Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE, BD-RW. Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS, LPCM (DSP functionality handled by the Cell processor). Multiple analog outputs (Composite, S-Video, Component video).

S/PDIF optical output for digital audio. Two HDMI (Type A) outputs (Dual-screen HD outputs). Supported screen sizes: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p. 76.8 GB/s Cell FlexIO Bus (44.8 GB/s outbound, 32 GB/s inbound).

204.8 GB/s Cell EIB. 5 GB/s System Bus (Aggregated 2.5 GB/s upstream and downstream). 35 GB/s GPU to CPU (Aggregated 20 GB/s (write), 15 GB/s (read)). 22.4 GB/s GPU to GDDR-3 VRAM: 128 bits × 700 MHz × 2 accesses per clock cycle (one per edge).

25.6 GB/s GPU to XDR DRAM: 64 bits × 3.2 GHz. 256 MB GDDR3 VRAM clocked at 700 MHz. 256 MB Rambus XDR DRAM clocked at CPU die speed (3.2 GHz). 128-bit pixel precision offers rendering of scenes with high dynamic range imaging.

33 billion dot products per second (51 billion dot products with CPU). 74.8 billion shader operations per second (100 billion with CPU). 136 shader operations per clock. Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines.

Full high definition output (up to 1080p) x 2 channels. 1.8 TFLOPS (trillion floating point operations per second). Clocked at 550 MHz.