PS4-architecture to be used in future APUs - AMD shows

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Sal.Paradise said:

walsufnir said:

AbbathTheGrim said:
Seems like the PS4 will no longer have the upper hand against PC.

Yes, even in an architectural way, there is no advantage anymore when AMD releases this. I was wondering last week if this was all due to Cerny visiting devs and told AMD to develop for Sony or if AMD had already plans to do this and Sony just jumped on the train. 

We will see if NextBox also uses this, then it's definitely invented by AMD and not Sony. The only difference remaining is GDDR5.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2250802/amd-to-sell-a-cut-down-version-of-sonys-playstation-4-apu  

 

AMD to sell a cut down version of Sony's Playstation 4 APU

Will show how much work Sony has done

 

CHIP DESIGNER AMD will offer a cut down version of the APU chip that will be in Sony's Playstation 4 later this year.

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However John Taylor, head of marketing for AMD's Global Business Units, said that a version of the same chip without Sony's technology will be available for consumers later this year.

Taylor told The INQUIRER that the AMD branded APU chip will not have the same number of cores or the same computing capability as Sony's part.

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Taylor said that this is all part of AMD's "flexible system on chip strategy", but what the upcoming A-series parts will show is just how much work Sony put into the chip that is found in the Playstation 4.

Sounds like Sony had quite a hand in the PS4's APU.

"He 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." 

 

As I read the article it's the number of cores that is Sony's "tech".