John Kodera: “PS4 Is Entering The Final Stages Of It’s Life-Cycle.”

[Pemalite]

fatslob-:O said:

Pemalite said:

They usually get around that issue by not building monolithic sized chips that are extremely complex.

And often a new node is used on small ARM chips, not server chips... I mean shit. TSMC's 7nm process already has a ton of partners signed up using the process, majority are all pretty much ARM chips with big x86 and GPU's coming later.

I think that might be AMD/Sony's plan, to build next generation infinity fabric so that they can build these APU "chiplets" then connect them on a high speed on-die interconnect so that they can roll their previously failed vision (HSA) into their new work and get cost savings for producing smaller dies like they do for their Threadripper or EPYC platform ... 

Indeed. I think AMD's approach to building smaller chips to bolster yields and then using their fabric to get them working together might be the key approach going forward with smaller geometries.

We are at an exciting point in the semiconductor industry, there are a heap of different ways things could go and I am keen to see it all play out.