When will an improved switch-hardware be released ?

[Bofferbrauer2]

Pemalite said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

@bolded: That's why I said about the same, not exactly the same. Sure, the 7nm will be more expensive, but not by much.

Nope. 7nm will be more expensive, it's actually been a trend for a long time now. It will take a couple years for TSMC/Samsungs 7nm to be price competitive.


Global Foundries is even stepping away from 7nm entirely... Meaning less capacity and competition at that node than say... 14/16nm.
https://www.anandtech.com/comments/13277/globalfoundries-stops-all-7nm-development

But in terms of fabrication... The bulk of IC's are 55nm and larger, with production of chips between 90nm and 180nm being 27% of the semiconductor market.

You are only looking at the raw bandwidth numbers.
The Switch actually has more available bandwidth than that.

In general... 50GB/s would probably be a good spot to be, it's roughly how much the Geforce 1030 has, which is a decent chip for 720P gaming. - Also find it not to be Bandwidth constrained either from when I did some overclocking testing
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7nm is starting this year, until 2021 there's quite some time to get it cheaper. First years are always expensive, hence why the beginnings are called risk production.

Also, keep in mind the price is per wafer, and there are a lot of X1 fitting onto one 300mm wafer. So unless the yields are crap, the price increase wouldn't be sensible, again why I said about the same.

Just to explain you what I mean when I say about the same, let's say there are 300 chips on a 300mm wafer. Now if that wafer costs 1800$ the chips will cost 6$ each. If the wafer costs 3000$ then the chips cost 10$ each.

In percentage, the price increase would be over 50% and therefore massive. But in Real life terms 10$ isn't much more expensive than 6$