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The PlayStation was originally launched in 1995 and sold over 100 million units worldwide. Many consider the SCPH-1001 units to be acceptable as CD players due to their analog audio output jacks.

Central processing unit
MIPS R3000A-compatible (R3051) 32bit RISC chip running at 33.8688 MHz
The chip is manufactured by LSI Logic Corp. with technology licensed from SGI. The chip also contains the Geometry Transformation Engine and the Data Decompression Engine.

Features:
* Operating Performance of 30 MIPS
* Bus Bandwidth 132 MB/s
* Instruction Cache 4 KB
* Data Cache 1 KB (non associative, just 1024 bytes of mapped fast SRAM)

Sound processing unit
Features:
* Can handle ADPCM sources with up to 24 channels and up to 44.1 kHz sampling rate

CD-ROM drive
Features:
* 2x, with a maximum data throughput of 300 kB/s
* XA Mode 2 Compliant
* CD-DA (CD-Digital Audio)