| dahuman said: It'd actually be AMD's part to redesign the silicon to work in that way and come up with new cooling, they might do it for their newer videos cards but I don't think the APU configuration will change drastically in the next 5 years once the "fixed" hardware factor is in, that's just how console are and there is nothing wrong with that. |
Ofcourse they would need to redesign the Apu but didn't MS changed the Xenos and Xenon and made it a single chip. Whats stopping Sony to invest some Money into a redesign later if it saves them alot more money. Whats AMD stopping from doing it ?
Whats the reasoning behind not taking a chance to make money and get more marketshare if a redesign won't influence the older models. Its not supposed to increase performance of a PS4 just make it cheaper its basically still a fixed unchanged hardwaredesign on the outside.
Maybe AMD layed plans out already for that to happen eventually and is part of the deal made with Sony ? Also if AMD wants Apus to go anywhere they need stacking, the GPU parts in an Apu for a PC can't grow due to DDR3 limiting bigger APUs.
its all part of the plan from the beginning imo.
