Rumour: PlayStation 4 Ditching The Cell Processor, Sources Say

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superchunk said:

maverick40 said:

superchunk said:

Burning Typhoon said:

superchunk said:
I thought this was pretty much a fact? Who really thought Sony would continue CELL?

*sighs :(

I take it you thought it would continue? Sorry. :(

But considering they stopped working on it a couple years ago, sold all rights to it, and then IBM stop pursuing it as well... and Vita doesn't use any variation of it... I just figured it was common thought at this point. 

I am glad they are ditching the cell but didn't sony buy the toshiba cell prodection plant a while back? 

No. Sony sold all production and rights to CELL. They dropped it completely.

I'm not sure, but you should double check your statement.  Just from a quick search it looks like IBM stopped production in further Cell chips after creating the 32nm, which is newer than the ones used in the ps3.  I can't say anything as far as Sony's stake in Cell, but was Sony themselves actually producing? Or was that IBM.  If there were rights involved, who to?  Sony didn't own or control the Cell processor from my understanding.  I still see Cell as an option on the table, and with 32nm chips as being the starting point, there must be quite the promise coming from using them in a next gen system.  With cell, really all they need is to string cores together.  They can create quite a powerful processing machine in a home console space with those chips, or maybe even do what they wanted to do with it in the first place as Staude so suggested?