| fatslob-:O said: I highly doubt that the APU costs less than $20 to make. If anything it should be around $130. Sure a 350mm^2 die is nothing of a behemoth compared to a 500mm^2 die but it should still be the most expensive component on board. I also Highly doubt AMD is getting much of any profit judging from their balance sheet ... Just because their is a contract between AMD and Sony like that doesn't mean that manufacturing costs will improve. Memory costs also won't significantly go down due to the fact that they also depend a lot on the silicon to make that happen. I don't expect a price drop to $299 until 2016 ... I don't think Microsoft is going to act insane like how Sony did with their PS3 pricing. Microsoft are smarter than that. |
The APU is the most expensive thing on that board as far as sony is concerned. But these things doesn't really cost that much to actually make. Haven't you ever heard this saying about chip manufacturing? "The first chip costs $2B, every chip after that costs $10".
As it stands, sony is paying AMD way more than that chipset actually cost to manufacture, but thats necesary for a certain number of million chips. After that AMD will pass some of those savings over to sony. Thats usually how these things work. So even if manufacturing processes haven't been improved, its possible for AMD to rediuce what sony pays them by $25.
And with MS going insane, sony weren't stupid for going insane and dropping the price like they did. If they didnt they would have completely lost last gen. And if MS drops price to remain competitive then thats not stupid either.There is really no resason not to. And if anything, with how quickly MS dropped the price of the XB1 (if we can actually call it a price drop), it just goes to show that MS is very ready to drop prices if they have to.
