Sony PlayStation Portable pictures pop up on the Internet

Speaking at Sony's Transform 60
conference, Kutaragi dubbed the PSP as the "Walkman of the future". And
here it is, taken from Ken's publicly downloadable presentation
foils:

The PSP design certainly looks a league
ahead of rival products, such as Nokia's new N-Gage and Nintendo's hugely
popular GameBoy Advance. Of course, this is simply the concept design, and
the final result may be less sleek, depending on such factors as
ergonomics and manufacturing costs.

The device in the top right
corner is the PSP Universal Media Disc (UMD), a DVD-like dual-layer medium
offering 1.8GB of storage. UMD comes with DVD-style region coding and
copy-protection mechanism based on the Advanced Encryption System (AES).
Each disc has a unique ID number too.

Sony has already said that
the PSP will be powered by a 90nm processor built from a MIPS 32-bit R4000
core. The chip will feature a SIMD vector processing engine along the
lines of Intel's SSE 2 and PowerPC's AltiVec. It will feature 8MB of
embedded memory clocked to 333MHz and operating at 1.2V. The memory
bandwidth is quoted as 2.6GBps.

A second MIPS R4000 core will be
used as the basis for the PSP's media engine, with 2MB of embedded DRAM,
and again fabbed at 90nm.

Alongside these two chips will sit two
dedicated graphics processors, one for high-level graphics manipulation,
the other for the raw pixel shunting. This second core contains 2MB of
embedded video memory operating across a 256-bit 5.3GBps bus. It can
deliver a fill rate of 664 million pixels per second in 24-bit colour and
churn out 33 million polygons per second with transform and lighting
effects.

The PSP will feature Dolby 7.1 multi-channel audio, with
3D sound. It will support MP3, AAC and Sony's own ATRAC3 sound formats. It
uses AVC (H.264) and MPEG4 for video. The machine's UMD media can hold up
to two hours' of DVD-quality video or four hours 'standard' quality,
whatever that is. Either way, movies are displayed on the unit's 4.5in
16:9 widescreen ratio 480 x 272-pixel LCD, seen here.

One of the
key features of the PSP is 802.11b wireless networking for multi-player
gaming. However, speaking at a news conference yesterday, Kutaragi said
Sony will at some point add phone facilities, bringing the device even
more into line with Nokia's console-cum-phone N-Gage.

Kutaragi
also said that PSP will not be a single device, but a range of machines
targeting different users. He also stressed that the handheld's design has
yet to be finalised.