Architecture of the Playstation 2

I remember when Toshiba first showed us the R5900, which was a real screamer for its time. They couldn’t tell us at first whom they were designing it for. This was perhaps 2-3 years before the PS2 was publicly announced (at, IIRC, E3) and even before it had been discussed with any 3P developers. In fact the secrecy before it was released was insane. Toshiba and Sony kept their technology very close to their chest and each would tell us…

While leading the software R&D team at Square USA (we made the "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" movie and one of the "Animatrix" shorts) our team got to develop some cool software both for the PS2 and the little known GSCube experimental machine. The GSCube was 16 GS processors in a box, and could be configured to access the frame buffer as a 4x4 tile format or as 16 layers composited in real time. For Siggraph 2000, we showed a…

via twitter : "Just published a big update on the PS2 article. In there, you will now find the history behind its MIPS CPU and updated information about the PS2's OS and the subsequent Homebrew scene." https://twitter.com/Flipacholas/status/1758940698466832574