Sony PSP2 (artists impression)

More PSP2 rumors are floating about, this time its how the PSP2′s Nvidia Tegra 2 CPU is way over its power budget by some 20%. According to the rumor source. Because of this delay in the CPU, the PSP2 missed its announcement which was apparently planned for E3 2010 just passed.

The Tegra 2 is a power house CPU that is designed for PC tablets and netbooks. That is meant to be both powerful and low power consuming, which it isn’t at this stage. Sony are not too impressed with Nvidia over this whole matter and the powers at be are pressing Nvidia to fix it and fix it fast. Which might mean the PSP2 CPU could get scaled back because of this. (I say just underclock it and later release more Mhz later down the track like Sony did with the PSP)

It is now set for a CES showing, but it will almost assuredly be released at a later date. This isn’t due to the number of engineers mauled by moles yesterday, but because the Tegra 2 is massively over it’s promised power budget. In a segment that finds 5% overages unacceptable, Tegra 2 is 20%+ over power budget. That explains why Nvidia PR suddenly changed the focus of the PSP2 screed to avoid the word ‘phone’, but, luckily for Sony, the PSP2 does not have phone capabilities.

The power ‘whoopsie’ means delays and possibly spec downgrades for the PSP2, but we will have to see where it ends up. Between that overage and several showstopper bugs, Sony is said to be very miffed at Nvidia right now. Even the moles could sense that before they pounced on engineer after engineer. The scene in the streets is almost as bad as the scenes in the Nvidia meeting rooms when the Sony people come around.

Remember this is a rumor and lets see what pans out come CES 2011 early next year.

Source: Semiaccurate