Not this again.

And thuway has always been a hack. Never believe anything he says.

This has nothing to do with secret hardware, this is to do with the ICE team improving the coding/drivers.

Microsoft is rumored to show Direct X 12 running on Xbox One at E3. Should be interesting.

ICE is a team inside Sony World Wide Studio and based at Naughty Dog with many programmers from Sony World Wide Studio which made tool for PS4 development.

http://www.naughtydog.com/site/careers/graphics_programmer_ice/

Graphics team at naughtydog that creates the base engine for sonys first party i think?

Irish Croissant Enthusiasts (IRA's overweight fraction).

Improving drivers and coding will never have a major impact on console hardware performance. The people who believe these kinds of rumors dont understand how hardware works.

Consoles by default have incredibly low access APIs and in that manner already are as close to "coding to the metal" that youll get. Thats not to say we wont see some improvement / refinement but Thuway is acting like this is a huge move and massive power boost. Refining an API in a console will not do that 

Tiled resources man. They can do everything you want, they can be anything you want them to be.