| Arkaign said: Best guess : we see die-shrunk Jaguar APUs for the X1/PS4 arrive no sooner than Xmas 2016, and more likely sometime in 2017. And that will be the only revised APU during the entirety of the 8th gen. ~10nm will appear before 2020, but the economics won't support getting Jaguar on it. |
I really hope it happends sooner than Xmas 2016.
16nm FinFET APU will make cooling needed be tiny compaired to what it is now, the power unit can be futher reduced down to almost nothing in size.
When that happends I wouldnt be surprised to see PS4/Xbox Ones being sold for 249-299$, depending on how smart they are about the design.
"TSMC's 16FF+ (FinFET Plus) technology can provide above 65 percent higher speed, around 2 times the density, or 70 percent less power than its 28HPM technology." - TSMC
Half size chips has to cut price of the chips by a good bit.
The power consumption will probably be halved or something like that.
It should be enough to cut atleast 50$+ off of the consoles in terms of price (from the chip alone most likely).
Ontop of the extra saveings form the cooling unit, and power unit.
