| teigaga said: What kind of power leap to you thing we could see by 2017 on 14nm chips within $399 price bracket? |
There isn't a simple answer to that. On the processor side, If looking at a straight correlation; same die size, exact same architecture; then on a 14nm process we can theoretically have 4 times the power. But its not that simple. cauby 2017 14nm chips won't be cheap. At that time all the other chip making foundries would just be getting to 14nm meaning that yields would be low. Low yields means more expensive chips. The guys making the Chios for Amd for both the PS4/XB1 are yet to start 20nm fabrication. That means we don't see those in consoles till next year at best.
A much more powerful 14nm console can be made in 2017/18, and by much more I mean like 6-8 times more powerful if they went back to building the CPU and GPU on different dies. But there are too many problems with that kinda design. RROD, YLOD...etc. There are also a lot of developing techs in storage I/o, memory types and bandwidth..etc that are worth waiting out for.
