| Intrinsic said: Yeah I'm beginning to think so too. The way i see it is that Sony would never manufacture a base PS4 at a 14/16nm process. So you are right, at some point manufacturing the Neo will actually be cheaper than making the base PS4. Sony probably figures that there will be around 20 of the 40M+ PS4 owners that will even tally upgrade to the Neo, which in turn will mean there will be lots of used PS4s out there for people that want that. |
Well. For awhile it might actually be more cost effective to not shrink the PS4 anyway.
As everyone and their dog moves over to 16nm/14nm process's, there is going to be a ton of spare capacity at 28nm... And an Idle fab is a fab that is wasting cash.
Sony will likely keep both devices on the markets to target different price points anyway, so eventually moving the vanilla PS4 down to 14nm would be beneficial as the Neo also gets cheaper.
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