Recycling PS3 for PS4

To imagine what could be a playstation 4, we should, what can not locate the most current PS3 or do not look good. For the former, integrate Sony need for close cooperation between the hardware and software development for its next console.

According to SCEA’s CEO Jack Tretton: “The types of hardware developed the [PlayStation 3] fairly independently, then threw it on the lap of the software guy’s actually saying” does something with it. ”

Considering that Sony will appear about 3 billion U.S. dollars in the development of the PS3, it is likely that it use an improved version of the Cell processor for a ps4. IBM has released an enhanced version of the cell for its blade servers. The PowerXCell 8i is a 65-nm chip) with support for 32GB of DDR2 memory and eight fully-functional SPEs (up to seven on the PS3 in comparison.

The advantage of recycling is the cell that Sony a familiar development environment and use existing code could keep libraries. The modular design of the Cell architecture could also allow extra Synergistic Processing Elements (SPE) to be added to future chips. Twenty or more SPE could be on a 32nm Cell processor.

And if the increase in on-chip SPE is not an option in the proposed 2011-2012 time frame, then several PS4 could integrate Cell chip. IBM Cell roadmap includes a PowerXCell 32iv that about four PPES (Power Processor Elements) and 32 SPEs, ie four Cell chips running in parallel function.

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