AMD to sell a version of the PS4 APU to PC builders

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Tachikoma said:

DanneSandin said:

http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/52361-tired-unrealistic-hair-then-use-amd-tressfx/

AMD to sell a version of the PS4 APU to PC builders

In further AMD news it has been revealed that the company will be making available a version of the chip powering the Sony PlayStation 4 to ordinary folk and PC builders. The chip will be the same AMD Jaguar APU minus some Sony technology and custom specifications.

John Taylor, head of marketing for AMD's Global Business Units, told The Inquirer that the APU will be available to consumers later this year. The chip made available to consumers will be the based on the same technology but sounds like it will be cut down in several ways. Talking about Sony’s PS4 reveal AMD’s Taylor said “Everything that Sony has shared in that single chip is AMD [intellectual property], but we have not built an APU quite like that for anyone else in the market. It is by far the most powerful APU we have built to date, it leverages [intellectual property] that you will find in our A-series APUs later this year, our new generation of APUs but none that will quite be to that level of sheer number of cores, sheer number of teraflops.”

When AMD launches its third generation of APUs later in the year and the Sony PS4 is available it will be interesting to compare what differences and enhancements the Sony technology and chip specification makes to games titles across systems. However I’m sure both systems will offer nice in-game hair.

 

Something you guys seem to miss here:

Bold 1 : AMD are also providing the processor for the next xbox, this statement suggests that microsoft will not be opting for a more powerful cpu to compete with the ps4

Bold 2 : More or less confirmation that features noted in AMD's processor roadmap slated for Q3/Q4 release will already be present in the PS4 processor.

It's weird how almost all of your posts get ignored...