Hydra Technology Rumored for New Sony Handheld PSP2?
‘PSP Go’ was hot news till a few days back. But here is something hotter rumored about Sony’s plans.
Gameindustrybiz has reported that PowerVR technology from Imagination Technologies will form the basis of the still-in-development PSP2. Insider scoop says that a quad core iteration of the low-power SGX543MP chip, codenamed “Hydra”, will be present in the next generation handheld, not to be confused with the forthcoming PSPgo.
The chip is supposed to be the enhanced GPU residing within the iPhone 3GS, providing a generational leap in performance over older PowerVR MBX processors found in the previous models.
This is a multicore processor, available with anything up to 16 cores on tap. According to the original report, PSP2 opts for a quad configuration offering notional specs of 133 million polygons per second, and 4Gpixels/sec fillrate
Imagination Technologies itself iis said to have describes the chip as a GP-GPU, meaning it has the ability to operate as both CPU and GPU in one handy package, similar to projects being worked on by Intel and AMD.
It may well be that PSP2 will centralize all of its processing into a single chip, thus saving power and providing other efficiency savings from a programming perspective (lightning fast interaction between game logic and graphics, for example).
Mind-boggling… Wish this rumor turns out to be a fact!!!!
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“Mind-boggling… Wish this rumor turns out to be a fact!!!!” I do but if Sony fails with this hand held then consider them dead to the hand held market meaning this could make or break Sony at least in the portable market.