| Bofferbrauer2 said: Don't forget the PS4 Pro APU includes the CPU, and the Jaguar CPU is very small. A Ryzen-based CPU part would be much bigger even with just half the cores 5nm will be problematic unless the PS4 releases 2021 earliest. While 5nm will probably start production in 2019-2020, the yield rates will be atrocious at first, so not really financially viable. As for EUV, well it's initial investment will be enormous and somehow the fab has to make that money back, which means more expensive wafers and thus more expensive chips. It's actually the main reason by now EUV hasn't been implemented yet, the technical difficulties have been largely solved now. In any case, TDP will be a problem with Vega, maybe Navi can change that, but I doubt it personally |
Ryzen will eventually get small too with more transistor shrinks ...
I think PS5 will launch in 2021 and EUV research was already ammortized so not much need make the money back from research and it didn't cost tens of billions like you imagine ...
I also don't think we'll be getting Navi, it's probably going to be the architecture after that one if PS5 releases in 2021 ...
