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Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement by TheAceOfHearts on Monday April 03, 2017 @05:23AM (#14021547)
I was under the impression all the big modern consoles were using customized AMD GPUs. For example, according to the PS4's Wikipedia entry [0], its GPU is a "Semi-custom AMD GCN Radeon (integrated into APU)". Are those customizations made by AMD for Sony, instead of licensing the technology?

I found an article claiming Intel is licensing AMD GPU technology [1]. If that's the case, would it be surprising to see Apple do the same?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4042977-new-details-intels-...

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Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement by Asooka on Monday April 03, 2017 @05:33AM (#14021582)
Yes, those customizations are made by AMD. They aren't even very custom, fail0verflow have managed to run a lightly modified linux kernel with the open-source AMD drivers on PS4 hardware with full graphics acceleration[0].

[0] https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2016/console-hacking-2016-post...

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Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement by catdog on Monday April 03, 2017 @09:48AM (#14022697)
As far as I know this are more or less custom configurations of the same CPU i.e. how many CPU/GPU cores, how much cache etc.
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Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement by masklinn on Monday April 03, 2017 @05:34AM (#14021588)
> Are those customizations made by AMD for Sony

Yes, same for the Xbox One, they both use APU customised by AMD.

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