Close on the heels of Sony's disclosure of the PlayStation 4 (PS4) components a few days back, chip-maker AMD has revealed that it plans to sell a PC-specific modified version of the custom chip that it has designed for the forthcoming console.

According to an Inquirer report, John Taylor - Head of Marketing at AMD - has revealed that AMD intends releasing a scaled down version of the PS4's accelerated processing unit (APU) for personal computers (PCs).

As per the details shared by Taylor with Inquirer, the modified version of the PS4 APU for PCs will be quite similar to the console's chip, though it will be a comparatively less powerful unit. Taylor clearly specified that the APU which it intends releasing for the PCs will neither have the same number of cores nor the same computing capabilities as those found in the PS4 APU.

Going by some earlier reports, the chip that powers the PS4 boasts 8 x86-64 CPU cores; with the GPU - based on the next-gen Radeon graphics engine - having the capability of delivering 1.84 teraflops of performance power.

About the exceptionally powerful PS4 chip, Taylor said that AMD's APU for the forthcoming Sony console was "by far the most powerful APU we have built to date;" and added that the chips which will be launched later this year will not be capable of "that level of sheer number of cores, sheer number of teraflops."