Report: Xbox One and PS4 use up to three times more power than Xbox 360 and PS3

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Chris Hu said:

Soleron said:
Don't expect power consumption on these to come down. Ever.

AMD hasn't even got 20nm products on the roadmap, and consoles would not be first priority for such a shrink.

Well before they can reach 20nm they actually have to release something that uses 22nm which is a regular size and not a half-note.

Actually the names of nodes have nothing to do with the size of anything, and in terms of rough tech equivalence, 20nm IS 22nm. Half nodes no longer exist. Also Intel 22nm is superior to TSMC and GF 20nm because it's non-planar.

And then the interesting thing is going to be that TSMC 16nm and GF 14nmXM will not actually be much smaller than 20nm, but cost a lot more.