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PS4 without PowerPC?
Posted on 1-Mar-2012 22:55:07
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| AMD Fusion to power PS4
Too bad the PowerPC Cell didn't work out in the world dominating plans of Sony. I'd like to see what an Amiga OS might make out of the chip. |
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Re: PS4 without PowerPC?
Posted on 2-Mar-2012 13:17:14
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Well, Sony is a bit unique in that they haven't bothered staying within the previous CPU family the last two times, so them shifting again should not come as a surprise to anyone.
If AMD can come up with a solution of an efficient main CPU to replace the PPU and a good GPU with GPGPU replacing the SPEs, then I don't see any downside. How they will handle the backwards compatibility is a good question, though. Maybe they won't?
The way I see it, Cell was a side step on the road towards GPGPU. _________________
Idea for "cheap" card using P2040/41 running multiple OSes and/or SMP OSes.
Anyone interested? |
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Re: PS4 without PowerPC?
Posted on 3-Mar-2012 11:50:12
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| hmm... a few days ago I read that it will have 3Ghz ARM A15 with 8 cores... 
Fusion sounds more reasonable. _________________
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