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Tag Archives: PS4

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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 3, 2018

SemiAcccurate gets some Playstation 5/Next details

Exlcusive: Once again first with real console news

Semiaccurate is back with a bang, and that bang is Sony Playstation 5/Next specs and timetables.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 18, 2015

UzBrain’s Rail Gun turns a toy weapon into an FPS controller

MWC 2015: Strap on motion sensor and buttons

A Korean company called UzBrain was showing off a unique FPS controller called Rail Gun at MWC.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 23, 2014
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What console will sell more than all the rest combined in 2014?

GDC 2014: Hint – It’s one you have probably never heard of

What does SemiAccurate think will be the highest selling console of 2014? If you said it is Sony’s PS4, you would be wrong.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 18, 2014
6

Microsoft adopts Mantle but calls it DX12

GDC 2014: Completely different because it is not called Mantle, just ask MS PR

Just as SemiAccurate predicted months ago, Microsoft has adopted AMD’s Mantle but are now calling it DX12.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 11, 2014

Will Microsoft’s XBox One survive?

If you think that is a silly question, you don’t understand the game

Microsoft’s XBox One is in a far more dire situation than people realize. Why? In a word, demand.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 20, 2013
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How does the Sony PS4 fare against sidechannel crypto attacks?

Playstation 4 vs the white hats with tools round 1

Last week SemiAccurate told you how the XBox One fared against sidechannel crypto attacks, today the PS4 goes under the sensor loop.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 6, 2013

How well does the XBox One do against sidechannel crypto attacks?

SemiAccurate asked around and got some surprising answers

Security is said to be a fundamental feature of the PS4 and XBox one so how well do they do against sidechannel attacks?
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 23, 2013
1

A long look at AMD’s Hawaii and Volcanic Islands architecture

Start with GCN and add lots of goodies in the uncore

AMD is announcing their newest GPU called Hawaii or R9 290X today, say welcome to the Volcanic Islands (VI) Family.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 18, 2013
9

Sony takes a radically different approach to the PS4 lifecycle

The old way is not the new way this time around

Even before the Playstation 4 is out there are credible rumors about it’s replacement that suggest Sony is going down a radically different path this time.
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Leo Yim
Oct 16, 2013

Microsoft officially turns down Mantle

Opinion: Let the hostility begin

Microsoft, on October 14, released a blog post to further push Direct3D, while officially turns down Mantle. This blog post comes as a follow-up to AMD’s announcement of Mantle, a “console-like” low-level API for PC game development, during AMD’s GPU14 …
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 16, 2013

XBox One’s Kinect sensor overcomes problems with intelligence

Hot Chips 25: Clever solutions to complex problems from other clever solutions

The Kinect sensor in the upcoming XBox One uses a clever way of measuring depth, but what problems arise from it?
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 15, 2013

A long look at Microsoft’s XBox One Kinect sensor

Hot Chips 25: More depth than you can shake an NSA wiretap at

SemiAccurate went over Microsoft’s XBox One SoC in great detail, now it is time to take a look at the Kinect sensor.
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Charlie Demerjian
Sep 3, 2013

XBox One’s sound block is much more than audio

Hot Chips 25: Think DSP and Kinnect co-Processor more than beeps

This story is the third part of SemiAccurate’s look at the XBox One’s architecture as presented at the Hot Chips 25 conference.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 19, 2013
7

Why Microsoft is delaying the XBox one

Bad designs are harder to make than good ones

Microsoft is delaying the launch of the XBox One for most of the world by up to a year and the reasons for it are obvious.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 19, 2013

Nvidia’s Kepler license has no chance of success

Distractions, sideshows, and other press tricks

Nvidia licensing it’s Kepler architecture is nothing more than a last-ditch play to keep the stock price from tanking.
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