| GribbleGrunger said: I wonder if AMD have done a deal with Sony and also modified their future chips in line with Sony's own changes? If they put out a chip that's exactly the same as the PS4 then that chipset would become cheaper a lot quicker. Not to mention it would make a lot of PCs compatible with the PS4. I'm beginning to wonder whether Sony have changed their strategy entirely to the developers this year. They've shifted their plans from consumer to creators because they've suddenly realised that it's the creators that ultimately relate to their audience ... and that's what makes the money, NOT public relations. Have Sony allowed AMD to copy their changes in exchange for cheaper chipsets? When I then look at Cage and the recent festival he was at, I can't help but wonder if Sony didn't pull a few strings to get that to happen. Then you look at the Indie scene and how suddenly Sony have become synonymous with 'Indie'. Something is definitely afoot. I can't wait to see how this pans out. This is the Play, Create, Share philosophy taken to a whole new level. Haven't Sony also just announced some directive with 'coding' too? Something about sharing code between developers or anyone who wants to contribute. I think the development studios are going to embrace a console like that. |
Whatever Sony has influenced in AMD's designs, it will not become apparant for years, because it takes that long to design a CPU or even a GPU.
AMD, nVidia and Intel have multiple teams working on CPU's and GPU's so they can have frequent launches every year, this isn't cheap or easy, having someone come in mid-development and drop something new in can distrupt an entire chain of development.
Besides, even before Sony came around AMD was already heading down this path with it's Fusion initiative, it's an evolutionary step up the ladder to get to the ultimate goal of fusion.
And as for the other important fact... Intel and AMD keep their x86 designs very close to the chest, I'm pretty sure AMD would be breaking it's x86 licensing agreement with Intel if it shared/showed the "x86 secrets" with another company such as Sony, Sony's engineers can probably suggest some things, but overall it would probably not even be allowed to look at the chips design and hence assist with actual development.
Heck, Intel chucked a fit when AMD spun off Global Foundries, Intel didn't want x86 chips being fabbed at another company.
Also, are those Single Precision GPU numbers and Double precision CPU numbers being compared in that AMD's chart in the Ops post? If so, talk about bloody unfair.
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