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7nm this year for high margin devices. Basically devices that can or already sell at some sort of ridiculous premium.

7nm next year will become available for nearly everything else. Except consoles as yeilds would still be too pricey, unless of course either sony or MS intends to rush to market and bite the bullet on higher than could be chip costs. Though that would be silly cause that would mean they sacrifice on other things like say Ram....

2020 will see 7nm become mature enough (aka 7nm+) to meet the kinda volume production sony/ms will need for their consoles.

And the thing about the pro/slim using 7nm, well the thing is that a new fab node doesn't just automagically mean you can shrink everything. Millions still have to be spent on R&D and redesigning every single component in the PS4/PS4pro to make th emost from a 7nm APU process. Question is is that money better spent on a smaller PS4/PS4pro or on the PS5?