Rumor: Sony Dropping NVIDIA Chip and Using Intel’s Larrabee for PlayStation 4
Here’s the silicon scuttlebutt of the weekend, if not the week: Sony will use Intel’s Larrabee graphics chip in its upcoming PlayStation 4. (Let’s not forget the other tantalizing piece of speculation this week: the Nvidia-powered Microsoft smartphone rumor, which Microsoft apparently put to rest.)
We know for a fact that Jeffery Katzenberg at DreamWorks likes Larrabee–a lot. That apparently was one of the reasons DreamWorks dropped Advanced Micro Devices. So, chalk that up as one big win for Intel’s somewhat-murky next-generation graphics chip due late this year or 2010. Now Sony? A report this week in the U.K.-based technology Web site The Inquirer claims Sony favors Larrabee over Nvidia for its PlayStation 4. (The other major piece of silicon used in the current PlayStation is a Cell processor developed jointly by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba.)
Comments are closed.