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Posted by Sam Reynolds — February 23rd, 2012, 12:02 PM

Citing a secretive group of former AMD employees, Forbes is reporting that the PlayStation 4 may feature chips made by AMD.

The Xbox 360 currently features an AMD GPU. There has been no concrete news as to whether the next generation Xbox will feature AMD’s technology.

These former AMD employees told Forbes that “the processor designer may play a key role in the new product”.

At AMD’s analyst day in January, AMD’s Chief Financial Officer identified gaming as one of several trends that will drive revenue growth at AMD in 2012.

Sony refuses to comment on a successor to the PlayStation 4, and goes as far as to deny the existence of any efforts to produce a new console.


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  • http://www.facebook.com/sean.demarco Sean Patrick DeMarco

    So is that where all the unsold Bulldozer chips are going to go ?

  • Mcbotthezoomer

    I hope not, although in a new architecture with most FP handled by the GPU (where the bulldozer is lacking) they could work.

  • Lkashl

    Suspect a minor typo with the last sentence, “successor to the Playstation 4 (as opposed to the Playstation 3?)
    Either way I would think Sony should be hard pressed to conceal the Playstation 4 considering they apparently admitted to their shareholders that excessive R&D costs arose from the next gen consoles…

  • http://twitter.com/cal920c Calvin Ing

    … I hope not, cause that would lead to crummy Stereoscopic 3D performance