AMD: We Will Sell PlayStation 4-Like APUs on Open Market.

Xbitlabs ^ | 02/27/2013 09:04 PM | Anton Shilov

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Sony PlayStation 4 Technologies to Be Available for PCs*********************************************

But not the customized chip as I read it

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Advanced Micro Devices reaffirmed plans to sell accelerated processing units with Jaguar x86 cores and Radeon HD “GCN” graphics technology on open market. While those APUs will not be as powerful as the one that AMD developed for Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 game console, technology- and architecture-wise they will be similar to the semi-custom APU inside the PS4.

“Everything that Sony has shared in that single chip is AMD [intellectual property], but we have not built an APU quite like that for anyone else in the market. It is by far the most powerful APU we have built to date, it leverages [intellectual property] that you will find in our A-series APUs later this year, our new generation of APUs but none that will quite be to that level of sheer number of cores, sheer number of teraflops,” said John Taylor, head of marketing for AMD's global business units, in an interview with The Inquirer web-site.

Sony PlayStation 4 is based on a semi-custom AMD Fusion system-on-chip that integrates eight AMD x86 Jaguar cores, custom AMD Radeon HD core with unified array of 18 AMD GCN-like compute units (1152 stream processors which collectively generate 1.84TFLOPS of computer power that can freely be applied to graphics, simulation tasks, or some mixture of the two), various special-purpose hardware blocks as well as multi-channel 256-bit GDDR5 memory controller. The PS4 will come with 8GB of unified GDDR5 memory sub-system (with 176GB/s bandwidth) for both CPU and GPU as well as large-capacity hard disk drive.

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At least one company is working on getting multithreading capability into their game....see this:

Crysis 3 CPU scaling, hyperthreading vs AMD cores

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Mortrey.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.