| phaedruss said:
Architectures can play a major role in performace gains. I think 3-4 watts would be fine for a iPad mini sized Nintendo handheld though, isn't the Ps Vita around 3? Can't leakage issues be mitigated to some extent as well? I would think that as they mature that would be the case. |
Based off that video I would say that architectures DON'T play a major role to performance gains in comparison to chip scaling and I whole heartedly agree with Ex-Intel engineer, Bob Collwell with that.
I don't exactly know the power consumption for the Vita as it would be hard to isolate the components such as the screen which takes up a far portion of the power but I would still reccommend no more than 3 watts.
A matured process node mostly helps in the yield department but as for leakage you would have to fundamentally change the whole transistor architecture itself or the materials to achieve lower leakages such as employing High-K dielectric materials or making the move to FinFETs.
