caffeinade said:
Lawlight said:
There was a rumour that they might be using a discrete GPU but I think they are happy with AMD's APU. But I'm fairly sure that the newer it is, the more expensive it is.
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Die size, cooling and availability have much more of an impact than raw Newness.
R&D also does take a toll.
If you start designing a system, you cannot count on a part that will release at the same time as your system.
Especially if you don't know what it is capable at the time.
If you don't have the chips it is harder to write APIs, and provide dev kits for / to developers.
The current Ryzen chips, could be used in a dev kit today, you just need to know the limits of it as a APU and you can start designing your console.
Ryzen kicks the teeth out of the Jaguar, and in 2018 it will be far from new.
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Has Ryzen been released yet?
