Sony chooses IBM POWER 7 CPU for PlayStation 4
On November - 25 - 2009
We can reveal that SCEI has officially chosen IBM’s currently in development POWER7 architecture for it’s PlayStation 4 system, currently scheduled for a 2012 worldwide release.
The CELL chip which powers the PS3 is capable of 15 double precision GFLOPS. This would give the PS4 a performance leap of over 10 fold over it’s predecessor.
