MrSega wrote:@stu. Didn't you hear what I said?NGP/PSP 2 has been downgraded in power it will have siginificantly low memory, there would be no way a Next gen PS would be ported to the NGP if it has poor RAM resolution.
Also, the Larrabee being postponed last year means very little in Sony's CPU choice. A Japanese SCEI press report from Febraury stated, that Sony was considering Larrabee or Knights Corner, but if they couldn't acquire an Intel HPC, they'd consider OEM R&D options on a IBM "PowerPC".
Sony's only interest in 4 CELL currently is cutting manufacturing costs of PS3 and maintaining SKUs.
The reduction in memory is irrelevant, the NGP still will have a Quad core ARM chip with a Quad core PowerVR GPU, even with less memory it still is a powerful system.
I really can not see how you would possibly think that the cancellation of Larrabee would still allow Sony to use the chip in PS4, if the chip is cancelled then NO DEVELOPMENT IS BEING DONE, as for Knight Corner that was never mentioned in that report you are referring to, which btw was NOT a press release from SCEI. The report claimed that Sony had started development on their next gen system and had been evaluating the Larrabee tech, however this project was shelved when Intel dropped Larrabee so Sony start to look at a customized PowerPC based system instead, (which btw would probably include CELL-like features).
My reasons for including the Nvidia Denver CPU is due to the last 2 paragraphs in the article I linked earlier.
Quote: "Two major reasons why nVidia wanted to develop the processor - with or without Microsoft's dedication to base Windows 8 on ARM architecture - were Tesla and console business. Tesla is a growing business unit still gives a lot of revenue to either Intel or AMD, whomever ends up being selected for CPUs that feed the Tesla GPGPU array (1 CPU feeds 4 GPGPUs). Pairing Tegra 3/4 with Kepler-based Tesla is a start, and Maxwell/Project Denver should be a viable business solution, abandoning the need for an x86 CPU in order to feed the parallel GPGPU arrays.
As far as console business is concerned, Jen-Hsun confirmed that the company is working on an next-generation console. Chances are, the only chips inside the unnamed console should come from Santa Clara. Sony or Microsoft? We'll leave that guessing game to others.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/20 ... cture.aspx
Since Microsoft is probably using AMD for it's GPU and possibly PowerPC for their CPU again it really only leaves Sony.
What do you guys think?
Neither PS3 or the 360 can do that...