Theory/Prediction: Sony is about to reveal a Portable PS4

[Pemalite]

Conina said:

Pemalite said:

Indeed. Cost may have been a factor. But they still could have opted for a Pascal powered chip for a minimal cost.

How do you know the price difference would have been minimal?

Where are all those smartphones and tablets with a superior Pascal-SoC? With a competitive price, size and TDP there should exist some products in small form factors by now. 

How do I know? Because architecturally it's not a massive overhaul from Tegra X1. But it does clock higher, it is built on a better fabrication process and does have a couple of extra tricks like enhanced delta colour compression.

As for why Smartphones and Tablets don't use the "superior" Pascal Soc? Well. To be blunt... No one uses nVidia anymore in the Tablet/Smartphone space anymore anyway.
It's very much dominated by Qualcomm... With vertically integrated manufacturers opting for their own solutions like Apple with it's AX line, Samsung with Exynos, Huawei with Kirin... And then you have the likes of Allwinner, Mediatek and Rockchip bringing up the budget rear.

In short... nVidia exited the Phone market entirely as the profit margins and design wins just weren't happening... And has served the declining tablet market with older, outdated designs.
Thus they refocused there efforts on more specialized markets such as Cars, IoT and so on.