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		Narishma on July 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RPCS3 – Open Source Playstation 3 Emulator IMO they went AMD because that was the only real option left. PPC was dead by then outside of big IBM servers and ARM was just getting into low-end x86 performance levels. If PPC was still getting improved in the embedded space I think they might have went that way for backwards compatibility reasons.

wmf on July 12, 2023 | [–]

IBM put in a bid for PS4 (based on Power7 IIRC) but it wasn't selected. I think the convenience of getting everything from AMD helped them take over consoles.

MegaDeKay on July 12, 2023 | [–]

AMD was also able to offer up an APU (GPU integrated with CPU) vs separate chips that would have increased cost and complexity.

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