fatslob-:O on 29 April 2018
| Bofferbrauer2 said: 7nm would still be more costly then than 14/16nm is right now. If a PS4 Superslim would come out this year then most probably not below 249$ |
More costly ? Nah, at least not by much so it's only a tad more expensive per transistor ...
Even if cost scaling had stopped, there's still many savings to be found aside from the chip itself such as using smaller boards, moving to passive cooling, smaller case design and using a smaller power supply unit ...
Best of all there's GDDR6 for the masses! Sony can redesign the APU's memory controller so that they can deliver 2x higher bandwidth/density per pin for even more savings ... 
