TEAM DST claims to have made the first mod chip for the PlayStation Portable which will fit inside the machine itself and require no soldering.
Unfortunately, it may just prove too much, delivered too fast to be believable. With features including a built in processor, dual memory cores, its own custom interface and the ability to play UMD movies from any region, PSP users could easily be forgiven for getting caught up in the hype. Above and beyond all of this, the chip supposedly allows for a connection to a USB hard drive. All of this requires a single watch battery, which Team DST will be kind enough to include with the chip when sold.
The current plan is to sell the chip on eBay for $29.99, but eBay doesn't allow the selling of mod chips so this plan won't last long unless the auction is disguised somehow. Add to everything else the fact that the only picture anyone is carrying is a blurry, x-files style picture of what could be anything (many are saying an AMD chip) and the chip loses a modicum of credibility.
The PSP modification scene has already been plagued with hoaxes of everything from firmware downgrades to trojans. If this is another in that vein there won't be much surprise, but if it proves otherwise then it will be a major sting for Sony.
For more technical information you can take a look at this page here as to why the chip itself is everything from unlikely to a technical impossibility. µ
번역하려니 귀찮기도 해서 -_-;; 그냥 원본 올립니다
저것 말고도 일단 여태까지 알려진 성능만 해도 모든 코덱지원, 풀해상도,
완벽 오픈소스, 더블코어 사용, 버젼 2개 이상 바꿔가며 사용가능,
GBA, MAME를 포함한 에뮬들의 완벽화,리전프리, 모든 버전으로 로더 완벽구동가능,
GTA를 비롯한 불가능한 이미지도 무난하게 구동, built in processor의 사용,
외장 하드나 USB포트를 이용해 다른 기기와의 확장성,
그리고 무었보다 장점인....... '납땜없이 장착가능' 입니다
아무튼 현황을 보니 19일 (미국시각)에 ebay에 재고를 올리려다 거절당한후로
기회를 봐서 옥션에 올리려고 준비중이랍니다