[Beowulf] El Reg: AMD reveals potent parallel processing breakthrough

[Christopher Samuel]

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On 04/05/13 16:32, Eugen Leitl wrote:

> Purportedly, there will be something resembling the PS4 architecture
> for the PC market. That would be an APU with 8 cores and stacked
> memory.

Also interesting that Microsofts next XBox (720) will also be AMD,
with similar specs to the PS4.

http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-features/70724-microsofts-xbox-720-is-aligned-with-sonys-playstation-4

# Meanwhile, the Xbox 720 (Next) is reportedly powered by an
# AMD eight-core x64 1.6GHz CPU, a D3D11.x 800MHz GPU and 8GB
# of DDR3 RAM.

Of course being in a console doesn't mean a lot for success, just
look at Cell..

cheers,
Chris
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