[Info-vax] OT: SONY's PS4 announcment

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/23/2013 12:31 PM, MG wrote:
> On 23-feb-2013 17:55, Neil Rieck wrote:
>> On Feb-20, SONY unveiled some of the technical details around their
>> eighth-generation gaming platform still commonly referred to as PS4.
>> They will be shifting away from the custom Cell Broadband Engine
>> (a.k.a. POWER) currently found in the PS3 to an 8-core x86 CPU from
>> AMD called "Jaguar".
>
> I wonder if this was purely an economical decision?  AMD doesn't seem
> to be doing so well, in terms of performance, compared to Intel's
> "Core" offerings (last time I checked, anyway).  For that matter, also
> not that great compared to NVIDIA, in terms of graphics offerings...

Cost is always important.

And AMD was probably willing to give them a really good deal.

Arne