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dahuman on 20 March 2013
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Netyaroze said:
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.  


It'd be an actual chip redesign, it's not just slapping RAM on top of the GPU and calling it good ^_^; I think they'll come up with better cooling solutions down the line and maybe do the stacking on the side to reduce overall size but I don't think they'll tie the RAM to the chip directly.