Sony is rumored to utilize IBM Power7 CPU for PlayStation 4

Posted on December 1, 2009
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Sony is rumored to utilize IBM Power7 CPU for PlayStation 4

According to Dutch site PS3Clan.nl, Sony is rumored to have chosen IBM's Power7 CPU for their next-generation console Sony PlayStation 4 or PS4.  FGNOnline currently has info available regarding specifications and performance is that the PS4 implementation of the chip shall use 6-8 cores, 24-32MB shared L3 Cache, Quad threading per core, and a double precision performance approaching 200GFLOPS.  These could possibly help the next PlayStation console more cost effective and powerful.

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2 Responses to “Sony is rumored to utilize IBM Power7 CPU for PlayStation 4”

  1. Jannich on December 23rd, 2009 3:08 pm

    That would be pretty damn sweet!

    If it could run Linux anyway. :-)

  2. Jesus Christ on February 4th, 2010 6:13 am

    I dunno, I’d love to believe that they are using a reconfigrued IBM processor but after what IBM did . You know the xbox 360 processors is just 3 cell cores on steriods – minus the synergistic cores and add hyper threading. Something tells me the reports that intel wom the ps4 gpu will be more like the CPU, and an ati video card or nvidia, but I’d bank on ati as nvidia costs a bucket load for there chips. If larabee pans out you might see something like a 4 core icore 7 hybrid each with 2 synergistic cors intel style with larabee and rambus ram on both the gpu CPU shafted.

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