According to Dutch site PS3Clan.nl, Sony is rumored to have chosen IBM's Power7 CPU for their next-generation console Sony PlayStation 4 or PS4. FGNOnline currently has info available regarding specifications and performance is that the PS4 implementation of the chip shall use 6-8 cores, 24-32MB shared L3 Cache, Quad threading per core, and a double precision performance approaching 200GFLOPS. These could possibly help the next PlayStation console more cost effective and powerful.
Sony is rumored to utilize IBM Power7 CPU for PlayStation 4 | Sony PlayStation 4 Guru
