FGN : The Central Processors Of Next Gen Consoles.

[Lindbergh]

FGNOnline can today reveal the central processors of all four next generation consoles.

Sega “Super System”

*Fujitsu Venus SPARC64 VIIIfx (8 Core)

Nintendo Cafe

*IBM POWER6 (Tri Core)

Microsoft Xbox Next

*AMD Komodo (8 Core)

Sony PlayStation 4

*IBM POWER7 (8 Core)

- Zach Morris

Categories: Report

http://fgn0nline.wordpress.com/2011/05/ ... -consoles/

[mazonemayu]

Categories: Guess

[MrSega]

Categories: Guess

PS3's successor is not called "PS4". It's very very early in development. It may NOT even come out. It may use a Larrabee not an IBM Power 7(Power 7 still cost a fortune.)

[RiilihShimo]

Why are you posting things from FGN online when its run by Zack Morris?
His information is not credible...
Yes this is the speculation forum, but still this is getting annoying. Spam bot much?

[stu]

PS3's successor is not called "PS4". It's very very early in development. It may NOT even come out. It may use a Larrabee not an IBM Power 7(Power 7 still cost a fortune.)

Intel Larrabee = CANCELLED

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10409715-64.html

The chip was intended to be used as a fully programmable GPU utilizing multiple simplified X86 cores. It was NEVER intended to be a CPU.

From what I have read on the subject, the reasons for the cancellation are down to the fact that compared to the traditional fixed function GPUs from Nvidia and ATi/AMD, the Larrabee was not as powerful.

Here's a quote from the CNET article:

"
Graphics chip analyst Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research, said Intel is not hitting performance targets and this became apparent at the SC09 supercomputing conference last month.

"Justin Rattner (Intel Senior Fellow) demonstrated Larrabee hitting one teraflop, which is great but you could walk across the street and buy an ATI graphics board for a few hundred dollars that would do five teraflops." A teraflop is 1 trillion floating point operations per second, a key indicator of graphics chip performance"

Intel chose to shelve the project rather than have the chip outclassed by the latest GPUs from Nvidia and AMD.

The legacy of Larrabee lives on in Intel's Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture, these products are aimed at large computational research projects and CG generation for movies, the first products from this architecture are codenamed Knights Ferry, which is a development platform and Knights Corner, which is a processor accelerator for select highly parallel applications.

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/ ... 31comp.htm