So uh, what does Microsoft do now?

[Conina]

Mafioso said:

 

I'm expecting the new consoles to use 20nm, as 16nm is pipedream to cram the custom architecture they use. AMD/Nvidia will be at 16m this year on the GPU alone, and the consoles need 8core APU's with the custom memory configuration and gates that were architectured for them.

Which new consoles do you expect to use 20nm? AMD canceled all 20nm-chips last year, not only for the GPU development:

http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/amd-officially-cancels-20nm-chips-takes-33-million-charge/

So new consoles or console revisions will be either 28nm or 14/16nm.