Why Sony should also use a Cell Processor for PS5 (x86+Cell coprocessor)

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Trumpstyle said:
Funny how this thread is about putting x86+cell processor in ps5 for ps3 BC. When I think ps5 will probably have 4 zen cores/8 threads + 8 jaguar cores. The jaguar cores will be needed for backwards compatibility and can be used to run the OS (operative system) so sony won't haft to dedicate 1 zen core for the OS.

The jaguar cores will be only used for BC and OS and the zen cores for only ps5 games. Though I wanna add I'm not sure this is technically possible to do. But all hints about Ps5 says it will have BC (I think this is a bad idea) so sony might be forced to use 8 jaguar cores to achieve this.

Why? It's the same architecture. Zen cores do everything exactly the same as Jaguar cores, only 10 times faster. Backwards compatibility issues were only ever a problem on console because they kept reinventing the wheel instead of sticking to a standard. Now that they finally adapted a standard they won't move away from it and BC is basically guaranteed with all new consoles.