| DirtyP2002 said: I am not a tech-guy, so here is my question: The Xbox One is powerful, but not the most powerful machine the world has ever seen. MS did not hire idiots for hardware engineering, why are there heating issues? When I see the Surface pro for example, it comes in a much smaller package with a i5 CPU, 4 GB RAM plus a lot of basic-stuff a tablet needs (Full HD screen, 128 GB storage, Bluetooth, WiFi, USB 3.0, speaker, 2 built in cameras, etc). All this in a 900g, 0.53" thin device. So what exactly makes a console struggle, when there is WAY more space for the hardware and a big fan? Sure there is a disc-drive and a more powerful GPU, but why is this a problem these days? If you say a console is not a SoC: Why not? (I don't even know if it is) As I said I am not a tech-guy at all and this might sound stupid, but it would still be cool if you could educate me. It is just strange that we get smaller devices getting more and more powerful and a much bigger non-portable device is getting problems. |
I think this "heating" issue is more of a side-rumor that has attached itself to the main rumor in this thread which is about yields.
Yields are very much dependend on how well matured the manufacturing of certain parts of the chip are. Esram afaik hasn't really seen much use since the PS2 days, so there probably is a big lack of knowledge on how to construct the part in order to get good yields with todays manufacturing processes. Additionally it is said to be a big part of the APU with 1.6 billion transistors of the reported 5 billion in the chip, so there is much room for error there.
Without knowing the stuff in detail myself I'm pretty sure that parts with errors can either not work at all or generate more heat/use more power than originally was intended and that might be were this "heating issue" discussion came into this, as MS might accept chips that are running too hot with the specs they aimed for and downclock them to reach safe working temperatures/power consumption levels (ofc that would mean all X1 consoles use these new specs) to be able to manufacture more consoles - that is pure speculation though.
