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    Digital Foundry: next-gen PlayStation and Xbox to use AMD's 8-core CPU and Radeon HD

    You are properly right. But I do understand trustzone you could use the a5 for other functions becaus : “The second aspect of the TrustZone hardware architecture is the extensions implemented in some of the ARM processor cores. These additions enable a single physical processor core to...
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    Digital Foundry: next-gen PlayStation and Xbox to use AMD's 8-core CPU and Radeon HD

    Well you are properly right was just thinking if the arm a5 core in jaguar could be used for more then TrustZone alone they probably have 2 a5 cores on the dye. How difficult wold it be to swap the a5 to a a9 from what I can see the buss would be the same and jaguar is a synthesized design.
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    Digital Foundry: next-gen PlayStation and Xbox to use AMD's 8-core CPU and Radeon HD

    How likely is it that the background download cpu is the same arm cortex a5 processor that amd announced to be for TrustZone Capabilities last summer And if so what else can be implemented in it...
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    Digital Foundry: next-gen PlayStation and Xbox to use AMD's 8-core CPU and Radeon HD

    Given that this is a x86 core is it possible that the “GPU-like "Compute" module” in the ops article are SPE's like those found in the cell processor. it wold help with backward compatibility and can be used to of load some physics and is a known quantity for game programers