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According to Eurogamer.es (Via Digital Foundry), Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR SGX543MP chip – codenamed Hydra – will form the foundation for the in-development PSP2.
A quad-core version of the chip is rumoured to be Sony’s choice, with Digital Foundry stating the on-paper performance of the part is a ballpark match for the original Xbox – certainly a large leap over the current PSP’s capabilities.
Imagination Technologies describes its SGX543MP chip as a general-purpose computing on graphics processing unit, which in short means it can double as both a graphics unit and CPU. This could help Sony keep costs and power consumption to a minimum.
