It seems that Sony released the seventh power sealed by PS 4 and the available CPU resources increased

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The fastest in series history of PlayStationNumber of sales exceeded 30 million unitsEurogamer 's survey of games related media revealed that "PlayStation 4" released released the seventh CPU core and increased the CPU that can be used for game development.

Sony unlocks more CPU power for PS4 game developers • Eurogamer.net
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-sony-unlocks-more-cpu-power-for-ps4-game-developers

The beginning of things,Beyond 3DThread "PlayStation 4 (codename Orbis) technical hardware investigation (news and rumors)"MabruThis is a post written by the user named "The seventh core was released in the latest SDK". Posted by Mabru, PS 4The latest update history"LowLevel API - PS4 - Added FMOD_THREAD_CORE 6 to allow access to the newly unlocked 7th core" was written.


Although it was talk of rumor level initially, Eurogamer confirmed with a person who is regarded as a person concerned, the seventh CPU core (Core 6) was released, and it is said that all game developers can use it is. However, "With regard to titles that have already been sold, you can not access the added CPU unless patches are distributed in the update."

Moreover, it is not clear how much the developer can use the CPU time of the released core. Eight CPU cores were installed in PS4, and the seventh and eighth cores released were used for OS code execution. In other words, it is not clear how much the CPU time of the released core is divided by the user CPU time.


As with PS4, Xbox One, which has 8 CPU cores, in February 2015The seventh core released to developersIt was the place where the core was expected to be released even in PS 4. The release of the seventh core in PS 4 seems to be a big change for developers.