HylianSwordsman said:
fatslob-:O said:
@Bold The gaming community is ignorant about this stuff anyways so I didn't expect much from them but the PC hardware community isn't as clueless. There's not a whole lot of people that put a whole lot of investments in knowing about semiconductor foundries and chip manufacturing. You'll see tons of gamers arguing about semantics such different architectures of a system yet we rarely see them making an argument about physical aspects of a chip such as power consumption or minimum feature sizes for a transistor which are just as important if not more so than they think.
It does indeed have some big implications in the future. PC gamers won't getting a whole lot of improvements in the performance for price department seeing as we've figured that it could potentially cost more to manufacture chips using newer process node. These current gen consoles could potentially last for about 10 years as 13.5nm EUVL isn't coming anytime soon and were stuck with the icky 193nm immersion technology.
http://semiengineering.com/euv-reaches-a-crossroads/
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Yeah, lets face it, if the gaming industry were a college campus, the console gamers would be the arts and humanities majors, while the PC gamers would be the hard science majors. So then, does all this basically mean at least a temporary end to the effects of Moore's law and that all these gamers that seem to think we'll see PS5/Nextbox by 2018 are full of shit?
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No because even at the same node process, prices will continue to fall as more and more chips are made.
