AMD Elaborates on PS4's Custom ''Jaguar'' APU ( Sony's new Gaming Console uses x86 Architure)

Tomshardware ^ | 11:00 PM - February 21, 2013 | Kevin Parrish

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AMD and Sony worked together to create a custom "Jaguar" APU.

AMD's Vice President of Global Communications and Industry Marketing John Taylor recently "elaborated" on the APU that is packed in Sony's semi-announced PlayStation 4 console. He said the new gaming console is the first announced design win based on a semi-custom AMD APU which was jointly developed in coordination with Sony.

"At the most basic level, an APU is a single chip that combines general-purpose x86 central processing unit (CPU) cores with a graphics processing unit (GPU) and a variety of system elements, including memory controllers, specialized video decoders, display outputs, etc.," he said. "Our semi-custom solutions take the same treasure trove of graphics; compute and multi-media IP found in our APUs, and customize them for customers who have a very specific high-volume product that could benefit from AMD’s leading-edge technologies."

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See this for some hardware details of the PS4:

PlayStation 4 Announced: PC-based AMD Hardware Inside

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Sony says that the PS4 has been in development for five years, which is a bit surprising as the PS4 is based on x86 architecture with 8 cores, an integrated GPU, and 8GB of shared GDDR5 RAM. Sony used the word APU, which gives us pretty good confirmation that it's AMD inside. The graphical portion of the APU is said to deliver almost 2 TFLOPS of performance. The 8GB of unified memory is shared between the CPU and GPU and supplies over 170GB/s of bandwidth.

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AMD Blog....: February 21, 2013 by John Taylor

AMD and The Sony PS4. Allow Me To Elaborate.

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WOAH!

Hold on there Sony, haven't we been down this path before?

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I am not interested in buying one unless it runs Linux or provides a PC like capability.

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Looking around not finding a lot new,...bit of a rehash here:

PlayStation 4 tech specs revealed: AMD 'Jaguar' CPU, faster Blu-ray, 720p 3D camera

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I don't know if this fits in but it is interesting....and unexpected:

Sony developing Firefox OS hardware, hopes to release first product in 2014

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he news was part of an announcement between Sony Mobile and wireless carrier Telefonica. Both companies have signed onto a multi-year agreement that, aside from guaranteeing continued support for Sony's Android lineup, creates "a joint technical collaboration to explore the development of a handset running Mozilla’s Firefox OS open source mobile platform."