thats gonna be a freaking beast of portable gaming console (in terms of power)...but then again i could be wrong :P)



lol at that picture XD

Lol O Rlly? This Made Me Laugh. But If It Was True It Would Be Mad Nice.

by all means go to the original source (traslate or w/e), because there is more interesting info!

If it is true then they must be planning the Psp2 to work more like a smartphone with the cores making multitasking apps more possible, to me that's more interesting than raw graphics power.

this is indeed an interesting news. would love to keep an update on this one. hopefully we have official statement from sony playstation soon. maybe this'll be announce after the release of psp go.

this is interesting, but they probably won't really say anything so soon....

if you want an official statement from sony, here it is: "No comment."

core2kid, laptops do indeed have GPUs, they're a necessary part of just about anything running Windows. Whether that be an integrated intel chip or the mobile version of a GEForce 8200, laptops have GPUs.



They said the core they had running was playing Quake 3 at 30fps. This makes it roughly as powerful as a Riva TNT2 (cutting edge in like, 1999). 4 Riva TNT2s do not equal one GEForce 7800 (roughly the power of the graphics processor in a PS3).



There is a whole lot more to how powerful something is than just how many cores it has, things like cache, clock speed, and pipelines, ram speed etc. factor in as well. A single core may in fact beat a quad core, like the example I showed above.



I'm assuming when you said CPU you meant GPU XD

xbox graphics isnt even close to high end anymore, ive got a pc at my work that runs at about the same speed as the psp and overheats all the time. as technology gets better the chips can run a lot cooler without overheating. im not saying its doable, just that it isnt as simple as that

Mobile processor technology is still years away from reliably running anything like that, but even if someone magically made a processor that can run at Xbox level without external cooling in the next few years, the biggest problem that cannot be fixed is lithium batteries would feel like a chunk of lava within 2 minutes and would fry the Psp.

even my grandma knew that, gosh

knowing sony we will get a psp2 that has half that stuff but cost twice the amout it should

I'm not sure you understand the difference between wireless N, G and B. Wireless N and G are the same thing, the difference is that N supplies a watt more transmission power. Same with B and G, except B has a slightly lower bit rate. an atom processor would kill the PSPs battery in under 20 min. oh, and incase you didnt know, the PlayStation brand will never show up with anything but MS, because MS is a sony format. 1GB ram would be useless to a handheld, seriously. Multi-Touch is an apple patent, it cant be done by any company legaly. a Camera is probable, but too expensive. And from what you've described, its a netbook, with more ram. Have you seen the size of a netbook? try to fit one in your pocket ;)

meh to RAM, who needs that much for buffering anyways.. and knowing the software stacking structure of Sony's software engineers, they dont even need that much ram. for buffering frames for that small screen, one need just a wee bit of ram. okay, mayb needed more for browsing or in-game xmb, but ram is kinda cheap nowadays.

OTOH no dedicated hardware for gpu? now that's an issue. even ps3 has their own dedicated gpu. it gives too much load for the processor to do too many things at a time, i do know that the architecture has more cores to be spent on, but what about the bus bandwidth issue, like memory controller and the likes.

with a general purpose graphics chip like this they dont need anything else. devs could reserve 1 or 2 cores for general processing while the others can handle graphics, or vice-versa.



With this chips poly count per second being 155 million (ps2 being 75 mil) at only 200 mhz we could see some seriously impressive graphics. perhaps if they also increase the clock speeds to 300+ we could even get over 200 mil.



Just cross your fingures...

Because storing entire games in RAM will make them faster.



You are an idiot.

I don't think they will get far with audio or video decoding by putting everything on one chip.



But having multiple cores brings it closer to home consoles and PCs making multi-platform games easier to develop without sacrificing so much. For example DS versions of games available on other consoles can end up looking and playing totally different, like what's the point?

Until there are games created for the new handheld that are even worth playing but require a beastly hardware system, I'd rather not want to hear of these rumors, because then other rumors will surface and it'll be a whole mess until the actual thing is revealed and everyone gets disappointed by another backfire, like the PSPGo (Though honestly, I'm still liking the system, but it doesn't make up for the hype and rumors created for it).



Now unless this PSP has a future, such as hardcore gfx or quality gameplay, there is no need for a new GPU or even a CPU since the current PSP CPU works just fine for everything, it's only a matter of execution that determines how well the hardware performs. An example are current emus on the PSP. I find it rather funny how PSX games can run exceptionally well on the portable whereas the N64 or even the SNES emus barely hold themselves together. The hardware is great as it is, but the coding and creation of these apps to run the things you want, not-so.

Why quadcore? i mean, isnt that a bit overkill? wouldnt it be faster if it would be single core or dual? i mean most programmer's dont really get that much more out of multicore programming