Why Sony went the Neo route

[Teeqoz]

Lafiel said:

Teeqoz said:
Sony wouldn't pay the costs for a die shrink though. AMD would, some of that cost might trickle down to Sony, but it's not like Sony would have to pay the hundreds of millions of dollars a die shrink costs.

uhm .. AMD certainly doesn't have that money to "waste"

if Sony insisted on AMD doing a 28nm -> 14/16nm die shrink "for free" after the probably planed 28nm -> 20nm one seemingly failed imo they would run a very high risk of bankrupting their APU supplier and in the aftermath of that losing out on hundreds of millions to billions of PS4 related profits

So you are telling me AMD aren't working towards a die shrink either way? I'm not saying AMD would do it "for free" but the op makes it sound like Sony would have to bank roll the entire thing.